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    Sarothruridae is a family of small- to medium-sized ground-living birds found mostly in Madagascar and sub-Saharan Africa, with the genus Rallicula being...
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    traditionally classified as Gruiformes. Rails (Rallidae), flufftails (Sarothruridae), finfoots and sungrebe (Heliornithidae), adzebills (Aptornithidae)...
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    genome sequences found adzebills to be closely related to the family Sarothruridae, the flufftails. Shortly after another study by Musser and Cracraft...
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    Family †Aptornithidae: adzebills Family Heliornithidae: finfoots Family Sarothruridae: flufftails Family Rallidae: rails and relatives Worldwide; 350 species...
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  • Mayr's forest rail (Rallicula mayri) is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It is found in northern New Guinea. BirdLife International (2017)....
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    white-spotted flufftail (Sarothrura pulchra) is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It has a widespread range of presence across the African tropical rainforest...
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    known to be an independent lineage of gruiform more closely related to Sarothruridae and adzebills. Fossil species of long-extinct prehistoric rails are...
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    Sierra Leone. The genus Canirallus was formerly placed in the family Sarothruridae. The genus was moved to Rallidae when a molecular genetic study published...
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    forbesi) or Forbes's forest crake, is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It is found in New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or...
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  • forest rail (Rallicula leucospila) is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It is endemic to West Papua, Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical...
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    Mentocrex is a genus of birds in the flufftail family, Sarothruridae. The genus includes two species, both of which are endemic to forests in Madagascar...
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    chestnut-headed flufftail (Sarothrura lugens) is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo,...
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    incertae sedis †Nesotrochis †Aptornithidae Aptornis Sarothruridae Mentocrex Rallicula Sarothrura Heliornithidae Heliopais Heliornis Podica Rallidae...
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    incertae sedis †Nesotrochis †Aptornithidae Aptornis Sarothruridae Mentocrex Rallicula Sarothrura Heliornithidae Heliopais Heliornis Podica Rallidae...
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    incertae sedis †Nesotrochis †Aptornithidae Aptornis Sarothruridae Mentocrex Rallicula Sarothrura Heliornithidae Heliopais Heliornis Podica Rallidae...
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    Rallicula is a genus of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It contains four species endemic to the island of New Guinea. Chestnut forest rail, Rallicula...
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    known as the chestnut forest crake, is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It is found in the Arfak Mountains and western-central New Guinea Highlands...
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    incertae sedis †Nesotrochis †Aptornithidae Aptornis Sarothruridae Mentocrex Rallicula Sarothrura Heliornithidae Heliopais Heliornis Podica Rallidae...
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    incertae sedis †Nesotrochis †Aptornithidae Aptornis Sarothruridae Mentocrex Rallicula Sarothrura Heliornithidae Heliopais Heliornis Podica Rallidae...
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    red-chested flufftail (Sarothrura rufa) is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It is found in sub-Saharan Africa from Liberia to Ethiopia and south...
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    form a lineage called Sarothruridae that separated from each other at the end of the Eocene, probably in Africa. Sarothruridae, in turn, is considered...
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    incertae sedis †Nesotrochis †Aptornithidae Aptornis Sarothruridae Mentocrex Rallicula Sarothrura Heliornithidae Heliopais Heliornis Podica Rallidae...
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    flufftail (Sarothrura ayresi) is a very rare African bird in the family Sarothruridae. The estimated global population size of white-winged flufftails is...
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    slender-billed flufftail (Sarothrura watersi) is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It is found in highlands of eastern Madagascar. Its natural habitats...
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    flufftail (Sarothrura insularis) is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It is endemic to Madagascar. The subspecies is Monotypic. Madagascar...
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  • streaky-breasted flufftail (Sarothrura boehmi) is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It is sparsely spread across wet grasslands of central Africa. The...
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    incertae sedis †Nesotrochis †Aptornithidae Aptornis Sarothruridae Mentocrex Rallicula Sarothrura Heliornithidae Heliopais Heliornis Podica Rallidae...
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    buff-spotted flufftail (Sarothrura elegans) is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It is found in forested areas of Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon...
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    wood rail or the kioloides rail, is a species of bird in the family Sarothruridae. It is endemic to forests, often in wet areas, in northern and eastern...
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    incertae sedis †Nesotrochis †Aptornithidae Aptornis Sarothruridae Mentocrex Rallicula Sarothrura Heliornithidae Heliopais Heliornis Podica Rallidae...
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