Coturnicops is a genus of bird in the rail family.
Taxonomy The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the yellow rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) as the type species. The genus name combines coturnix, the Latin word for a "quail", with ōps, an Ancient Greek word meaning "appearance".
Species The genus contains the following two species:
Image Common name Scientific name Distribution Swinhoe's rail Coturnicops exquisitus Manchuria and southeastern Siberia. Yellow rail Coturnicops noveboracensisCanada east of the Rockies; also the northeastern United States
The genus formerly included the speckled rail (Laterallus notatus).
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