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Okinawa Rail
Sign in to saveAlso known as Hypotaenidia okinawae, Gallirallus okinawae, Rallus okinawae
species of bird
Species
EndangeredGENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassCephalopoda
- OrderIdiosepida
- FamilyIdiosepiidae
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Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Hypotaenidia
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- Okinawa Rail, Kunigami-son, Okinawa.jpg
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- taxon name
- Hypotaenidia okinawae
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- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Endangered status
- taxon common name
- frango-de-água-de-oquinava
- Commons category
- Gallirallus okinawae
- short name
- H. okinawae
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Encyclopedic overview
The Okinawa rail (Gallirallus okinawae) is a species of bird in the rail family, Rallidae. It is endemic to Okinawa Island in Japan where it is known as the Yanbaru kuina (ヤンバルクイナ（山原水鶏）, "Yanbaru rail"). Its existence was only confirmed in 1978 and it was formally described in 1981 although unidentified rails had been recorded on the island since at least 1973 and local stories of a bird known as the agachi kumira may refer to this species. The species was formerly placed in the genus Hypotaenidia.
It is a medium-sized and almost flightless rail with short wings and tail, olive-brown upperparts, black underparts with white bars and a red bill and legs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Okinawa Rail” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.