Lewinia

Lewinia is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae.

Lewinia
Auckland rail (Lewinia muelleri)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Lewinia Gray, GR, 1855
Type species
Rallus lewini[1] Swainson, 1838
Species
see text

The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with Lewin's rail Lewinia pectoralis as the type species.^[2] The genus name is from a synonym of the type species Rallus lewinii Swainson, 1837.^[3] The common name commemorates the English engraver and naturalist John Lewin (1770–1819) who settled in Australia.^[4]

Species

The genus contains the following four species:^[5]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Lewinia pectoralis	Lewin's rail	Australia, Wallacea, and New Guinea.
	Lewinia mirifica	Brown-banded rail	the Philippines, from Luzon and Samar.
	Lewinia muelleri	Auckland rail	Auckland Islands
	Lewinia striata	Slaty-breasted rail	India

References

1. "Rallidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
2. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. pp. 120, 150.
3. Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Lewinia". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
4. Jobling, J.A. (2019). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "lewinii". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive: Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 8 July 2019.