Spotless Crake

Spotless Crake

Taxobox
name = Spotless Crake


image_caption = Spotless Crake (right) with a Baillon's Crake (left)
status = LC
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Gruiformes
familia = Rallidae
genus = "Porzana"
species = "P. tabuensis"
binomial = "Porzana tabuensis"
binomial_authority = (Gmelin, 1789)
synonyms =

The Spotless Crake ("Porzana tabuensis") is a species of bird in the rail family, Rallidae.It is found in American Samoa, Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Micronesia, New Zealand, Niue, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Pitcairn, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Tonga.

References

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/48983/all Porzana tabuensis] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 24 July 2007.


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