The avian family Rallidae comprise the rails, crakes, and coots. The AviList team recognizes these 148 species distributed among 38 genera, 19 of which have only one species. Nineteen of the species in the list have gone extinct since A.D. 1500; they are marked (Extinct).

This list is presented according to the Avilist taxonomic sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name and binomial.

List Common nameBinomial nameAviList sequenceChestnut-headed crakeAnurolimnas castaneiceps (Sclater, PL & Salvin, O, 1869) 1Spotted railPardirallus maculatus (Boddaert, P, 1783) 2Blackish railPardirallus nigricans (Vieillot, LJP, 1819) 3Plumbeous railPardirallus sanguinolentus (Swainson, WJ, 1838) 4Ash-throated crakeMustelirallus albicollis (Vieillot, LJP, 1819) 5Zapata railMustelirallus cerverai (Barbour, T & Peters, JL, 1927) 6Colombian crakeMustelirallus colombianus (Bangs, O, 1898) 7Paint-billed crakeMustelirallus erythrops (Sclater, PL, 1867) 8Uniform crakeAmaurolimnas concolor (Gosse, PH, 1847) 9Giant wood railAramides ypecaha (Vieillot, LJP, 1819) 10Brown wood railAramides wolfi Berlepsch, HHCL & Taczanowski, W, 1884 11Little wood railAramides mangle (Spix, JB, 1825) 12Rufous-necked wood railAramides axillaris Lawrence, GN, 1863 13Russet-naped wood railAramides albiventris Lawrence, GN, 1868 14Grey-cowled wood railAramides cajaneus (Müller, PLS, 1776) 15Red-winged wood railAramides calopterus Sclater, PL & Salvin, O, 1878 16Slaty-breasted wood railAramides saracura (Spix, JB, 1825) 17Grey-throated railCanirallus oculeus (Hartlaub, KJG, 1855) 18Ridgway's railRallus obsoletus Ridgway, R, 1874 19Aztec railRallus tenuirostris Ridgway, R, 1874 20Mangrove railRallus longirostris Boddaert, P, 1783 21King railRallus elegans Audubon, JJ, 1834 22Clapper railRallus crepitans Gmelin, JF, 1789 23Plain-flanked railRallus wetmorei Zimmer, JT & Phelps, WH Sr, 1944 24Virginia railRallus limicola Vieillot, LJP, 1819 25Ecuadorian railRallus aequatorialis Sharpe, RB, 1894 26Bogota railRallus semiplumbeus Sclater, PL, 1856 27Austral railRallus antarcticus King, PP, 1828 28Water railRallus aquaticus Linnaeus, C, 1758 29Brown-cheeked railRallus indicus Blyth, E, 1849 30African railRallus caerulescens Gmelin, JF, 1789 31Madagascar railRallus madagascariensis Verreaux, JP, 1833 32Rouget's railRougetius rougetii (Guérin-Méneville, FÉ, 1843) 33African crakeCrecopsis egregia (Peters, WKH, 1854) 34Reunion railDryolimnas augusti Mourer-Chauviré, C, Bour, R, Ribes, S & Moutou, F, 1999 (Extinct) 35White-throated railDryolimnas cuvieri (Pucheran, J, 1845) 36Red railAphanapteryx bonasia (de Sélys Longchamps, ME, 1848) (Extinct) 37Rodrigues railErythromachus leguati Milne-Edwards, A, 1873 (Extinct) 38Hawkins's railDiaphorapteryx hawkinsi (Forbes, HO, 1892) (Extinct) 39St. Helena railAphanocrex podarces Wetmore, A, 1963 (Extinct) 40Ascension crakeMundia elpenor (Olson, SL, 1973) (Extinct) 41Corn crakeCrex crex (Linnaeus, C, 1758) 42Snoring railAramidopsis plateni (Blasius, W, 1886) 43Slaty-breasted railLewinia striata (Linnaeus, C, 1766) 44Brown-banded railLewinia mirifica (Parkes, KC & Amadon, DA, 1959) 45Lewin's railLewinia pectoralis (Temminck, CJ, 1831) 46Auckland railLewinia muelleri (Rothschild, LW, 1893) 47Calayan railGallirallus calayanensis Allen, DNS, Oliveros, CH, Española, C, Broad, G & Gonzalez, JCT, 2004 48Invisible railGallirallus wallacii (Gray, GR, 1861) 49Chestnut railGallirallus castaneoventris (Gould, J, 1844) 50WekaGallirallus australis (Sparrman, A, 1786) 51New Caledonian railGallirallus lafresnayanus Verreaux, JP & des Murs, MAPO, 1860 52Lord Howe woodhenGallirallus sylvestris (Sclater, PL, 1870) 53Okinawa railGallirallus okinawae (Yamashina, Y & Mano, T, 1981) 54Tahiti railGallirallus pacificus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) (Extinct) 55Buff-banded railGallirallus philippensis (Linnaeus, C, 1766) 56Chatham railGallirallus modestus (Hutton, FW, 1872) (Extinct) 57Dieffenbach's railGallirallus dieffenbachii (Gray, GR, 1843) (Extinct) 58Pink-legged railGallirallus insignis (Sclater, PL, 1880) 59Woodford's railGallirallus woodfordi (Ogilvie-Grant, WR, 1889) 60Bar-winged railGallirallus poecilopterus (Hartlaub, KJG, 1866) (Extinct) 61Guam railGallirallus owstoni (Rothschild, LW, 1895) 62Wake Island railGallirallus wakensis (Rothschild, LW, 1903) (Extinct) 63Barred railGallirallus torquatus (Linnaeus, C, 1766) 64Roviana railGallirallus rovianae Diamond, JM, 1991 65Nkulengu railHimantornis haematopus Hartlaub, KJG, 1855 66Blue-faced railGymnocrex rosenbergii (Schlegel, H, 1866) 67Bare-eyed railGymnocrex plumbeiventris (Gray, GR, 1862) 68Talaud railGymnocrex talaudensis Lambert, FR, 1998 69Spot-flanked gallinulePorphyriops melanops (Vieillot, LJP, 1819) 70Black-tailed nativehenTribonyx ventralis (Gould, J, 1837) 71Tasmanian nativehenTribonyx mortierii Du Bus de Gisignies, B-AL, 1840 72SoraPorzana carolina (Linnaeus, C, 1758) 73Spotted crakePorzana porzana (Linnaeus, C, 1766) 74Australian crakePorzana fluminea Gould, J, 1843 75Lesser moorhenParagallinula angulata (Sundevall, CJ, 1850) 76Makira woodhenGallinula silvestris (Mayr, E, 1933) 77Tristan moorhenGallinula nesiotis Sclater, PL, 1861 (Extinct) 78Gough moorhenGallinula comeri (Allen, JA, 1892) 79Common moorhenGallinula chloropus (Linnaeus, C, 1758) 80Common gallinuleGallinula galeata (Lichtenstein, MHC, 1818) 81Dusky moorhenGallinula tenebrosa Gould, J, 1846 82Samoan woodhenGallinula pacifica (Hartlaub, KJG & Finsch, FHO, 1871) 83Red-fronted cootFulica rufifrons Philippi, RA & Landbeck, CL, 1861 84Horned cootFulica cornuta Bonaparte, CLJL, 1853 85Red-gartered cootFulica armillata Vieillot, LJP, 1817 86Giant cootFulica gigantea Eydoux, JFT & Souleyet, LFA, 1841 87Eurasian cootFulica atra Linnaeus, C, 1758 88Red-knobbed cootFulica cristata Gmelin, JF, 1789 89Mascarene cootFulica newtonii Milne-Edwards, A, 1867 (Extinct) 90Hawaiian cootFulica alai Peale, TR, 1849 91American cootFulica americana Gmelin, JF, 1789 92White-winged cootFulica leucoptera Vieillot, LJP, 1817 93Andean cootFulica ardesiaca Tschudi, JJ, 1843 94Allen's gallinulePorphyrio alleni Thomson, TRH, 1842 95Purple gallinulePorphyrio martinica (Linnaeus, C, 1766) 96Azure gallinulePorphyrio flavirostris (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 97Marquesan swamphenPorphyrio paepae Steadman, DW, 1988 (Extinct) 98Purple swamphenPorphyrio porphyrio (Linnaeus, C, 1758) 99South Island takahePorphyrio hochstetteri (Meyer, AB, 1883) 100White swamphenPorphyrio albus (Shaw, G, 1790) (Extinct) 101North Island takahePorphyrio mantelli (Owen, R, 1848) (Extinct) 102Ocellated crakeRufirallus schomburgkii (Schomburgk, MR, 1848) 103Russet-crowned crakeRufirallus viridis (Müller, PLS, 1776) 104Black-banded crakeRufirallus fasciatus (Sclater, PL & Salvin, O, 1868) 105Red-and-white crakeRufirallus leucopyrrhus (Vieillot, LJP, 1819) 106Rufous-faced crakeRufirallus xenopterus (Conover, HB, 1934) 107Swinhoe's railCoturnicops exquisitus (Swinhoe, R, 1873) 108Yellow railCoturnicops noveboracensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 109Inaccessible Island railLaterallus rogersi (Lowe, PR, 1923) 110Speckled railLaterallus notatus (Gould, J, 1841) 111Yellow-breasted crakeLaterallus flaviventer (Boddaert, P, 1783) 112Rusty-flanked crakeLaterallus levraudi (Sclater, PL & Salvin, O, 1869) 113Rufous-sided crakeLaterallus melanophaius (Vieillot, LJP, 1819) 114Ruddy crakeLaterallus ruber (Sclater, PL & Salvin, O, 1860) 115White-throated crakeLaterallus albigularis (Lawrence, GN, 1861) 116Grey-breasted crakeLaterallus exilis (Temminck, CJ, 1831) 117Galapagos crakeLaterallus spilonota (Gould, J, 1841) 118Black railLaterallus jamaicensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 119Dot-winged crakeLaterallus spiloptera (Durnford, H, 1877) 120White-browed crakePoliolimnas cinereus (Vieillot, LJP, 1819) 121New Guinea flightless railMegacrex inepta d'Albertis, LM & Salvadori, AT, 1879 122Striped crakeAenigmatolimnas marginalis (Hartlaub, KJG, 1857) 123WatercockGallicrex cinerea (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 124Isabelline bush-henAmaurornis isabellina (Schlegel, H, 1865) 125Plain bush-henAmaurornis olivacea (Meyen, FJF, 1834) 126White-breasted waterhenAmaurornis phoenicurus (Pennant, T, 1769) 127Talaud bush-henAmaurornis magnirostris Lambert, FR, 1998 128Pale-vented bush-henAmaurornis moluccana (Wallace, AR, 1865) 129Red-necked crakeRallina tricolor Gray, GR, 1858 130Andaman crakeRallina canningi (Blyth, E, 1863) 131Red-legged crakeRallina fasciata (Raffles, TS, 1822) 132Slaty-legged crakeRallina eurizonoides (de Lafresnaye, NFAA, 1845) 133Ruddy-breasted crakeZapornia fusca (Linnaeus, C, 1766) 134Band-bellied crakeZapornia paykullii (Ljungh, SI, 1813) 135Brown crakeZapornia akool (Sykes, WH, 1832) 136Black crakeZapornia flavirostra (Swainson, WJ, 1837) 137Little crakeZapornia parva (Scopoli, GA, 1769) 138Baillon's crakeZapornia pusilla (Pallas, PS, 1776) 139St. Helena crakeZapornia astrictocarpus (Olson, SL, 1975) (Extinct) 140Laysan railZapornia palmeri (Frohawk, FW, 1892) (Extinct) 141Sakalava railZapornia olivieri (Grandidier, G & Berlioz, J, 1929) 142Black-tailed crakeZapornia bicolor (Walden, A, 1872) 143Hawaiian railZapornia sandwichensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) (Extinct) 144Tahiti crakeZapornia nigra (Miller, JF, 1784) (Extinct) 145Henderson crakeZapornia atra (North, AJ, 1908) 146Spotless crakeZapornia tabuensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 147Kosrae crakeZapornia monasa (Kittlitz, FH, 1858) (Extinct) 148

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