Galápagos Rail
Laterallus spilonota
- Vulnerable
- Card rarity: Rare
- Birds
The Galapagos crake, also called the Galapagos rail and Darwin's rail, is a vulnerable species of rail in subfamily Rallinae of family Rallidae, the rails, gallinules, and coots. It is endemic to the Galápagos Islands. It resembles its sister species, the black rail of the Americas, from which it diverged 1.2 million years ago.
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Rallidae
- Genus
- Laterallus