Australo-Pacific Rails
Gallirallus
Gallirallus is a genus that contains about a dozen living, and several recently extinct, species of rails that live in the Australasian-Pacific region. The genus is characterised by an ability to colonise relatively small and isolated islands and thereafter to evolve flightless forms, many of which became extinct following Polynesian settlement.
28 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 13 known species
Buff-banded Rail
speciesGallirallus philippensis
Weka
speciesGallirallus australis
Barred Rail
speciesGallirallus torquatus
Lord Howe Rail
speciesGallirallus sylvestris
Okinawa Rail
speciesGallirallus okinawae
Chestnut Rail
speciesGallirallus castaneoventris
Guam Rail
speciesGallirallus owstoni
New Britain Rail
speciesGallirallus insignis
Roviana Rail
speciesGallirallus rovianae
Invisible Rail
speciesGallirallus wallacii
Calayan Rail
speciesGallirallus calayanensis
Woodford's Rail
speciesGallirallus woodfordi
Eua Rail
speciesGallirallus vekamatolu
Tahuata Rail
speciesGallirallus roletti
Ua Huka Rail
speciesGallirallus gracilitibia
Nuku Hiva Rail
speciesGallirallus epulare
Niue Rail
speciesGallirallus huiatua
Mangaia Rail
speciesGallirallus ripleyi
Huahine Rail
speciesGallirallus storrsolsoni
Tinian Rail
speciesGallirallus pendiculentus
Rota Rail
speciesGallirallus temptatus
Gallirallus steadmani
speciesGallirallus steadmani
Bar-winged Rail
speciesGallirallus poecilopterus
Tahiti Rail
speciesGallirallus pacificus
Wake Island Rail
speciesGallirallus wakensis
New Caledonian Rail
speciesGallirallus lafresnayanus
Dieffenbach's Rail
speciesGallirallus dieffenbachii
Chatham Islands Rail
speciesGallirallus modestus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 386.