Coturnicops

Coturnicops is a genus of bird in the rail family.

Coturnicops
Yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Gruiformes
Family:	Rallidae
Genus:	Coturnicops G.R. Gray, 1855
Type species
Fulica noveboracensis[1] Gmelin, 1789

Taxonomy

The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) as the type species.^[2] The genus name combines coturnix, the Latin word for a "quail", with ōps, an Ancient Greek word meaning "appearance".^[3]

Species

The genus contains the following two species:^[4]

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Swinhoe's rail	Coturnicops exquisitus	Manchuria and southeastern Siberia.
	Yellow rail	Coturnicops noveboracensis	Canada east of the Rockies; also the northeastern United States

The genus formerly included the speckled rail (Laterallus notatus).^[4]