African Crake Crex egregia Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (35)
- Monotypic
Barry Taylor
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated June 29, 2013
Text last updated June 29, 2013
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Afrikaanse Riethaan |
| Arabic | مرعة افريقية |
| Asturian | Guiyu africanu |
| Basque | Giloi afrikarra |
| Bulgarian | Африкански дърдавец |
| Catalan | guatlla maresa africana |
| Czech | chřástal africký |
| Danish | Græsrikse |
| Dutch | Afrikaanse Kwartelkoning |
| English | African Crake |
| English (United States) | African Crake |
| French | Râle des prés |
| French (France) | Râle des prés |
| Galician | Rei de paspallás africano |
| German | Savannenralle |
| Greek | Αφρικανική Ορτυκομάνα |
| Hebrew | מלכישליו אפריקני |
| Hungarian | Afrikai haris |
| Icelandic | Hagarella |
| Japanese | アフリカウズラクイナ |
| Lithuanian | Afrikinė griežlė |
| Norwegian | gressrikse |
| Polish | derkacz kureczkowaty |
| Portuguese (Angola) | Codornizão-africano |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | Codornizão-africano |
| Romanian | Cristel de câmp african |
| Russian | Африканский коростель |
| Serbian | Afrički prdavac |
| Slovak | chrapkáč hnedý |
| Spanish | Guión Africano |
| Spanish (Spain) | Guión africano |
| Swedish | afrikansk kornknarr |
| Turkish | Küçük Bıldırcınkılavuzu |
| Ukrainian | Деркач африканський |
| Zulu | umjekejeke waseAfrika |
Crex egregia (Peters, 1854)
PROTONYM:
Ortygometra (Crex) egregia
Peters, 1854. Bericht über die zur Bekanntmachung geeigneten Verhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, p.134.
TYPE LOCALITY:
Tete, Zambesi.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- CREX
- crex
- egregia
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Originally Appeared in
- Year-round
- Migration
- Breeding
- Non-Breeding
Distribution of the African Crake
