Fulica

Australian coot Fulica atra australis with chick, copyright Bernard Spragg.

Belongs within: Gallinula.

Fulica, the coots, are a cosmopolitan genus of strongly swimming rails with a well-developed frontal shield and broad lateral lobes on the toes.

<==Fulica Linnaeus 1758 CC10 (see below for synonymy)
    |  i. s.: F. chathamensis Forbes 1892 [=*Nesophalaris chathamensis] CC10
    |         F. newtoni Milne-Edwards 1867 L98 [=*Palaeolimnas newtoni CC10]
    |         F. prisca Hamilton 1893 CC10 [=F. chathamensis prisca GM91, Nesophalaris prisca CC10]
    |         F. spinosa Linnaeus 1758 L58
    |--F. rufifrons Philippi & Landbeck 1861 L98
    `--+--F. cornuta Bonaparte 1853 JT12, L98 [=*Lycornis cornuta L98]
       `--+--+--F. armillata Vieillot 1817 JT12, L98
          |  `--F. gigantea Eydoux & Souleyet 1841 JT12, L98 [=*Phalaria gigantea L98]
          `--+--*F. atra Linnaeus 1758 G-RGT14
             |    |--F. a. atra CC10
             |    `--F. a. australis Gould 1845 (see below for synonymy) CC10
             `--+--F. cristata Gmelin 1789 G-RGT14
                `--+--+--F. ardesiaca Tschudi 1843 G-RGT14 [incl. F. atrura L98]
                   |  `--F. leucoptera Vieillot 1817 G-RGT14
                   `--+--F. alai Peale 1848 G-RGT14 [=F. americana alai USDI77]
                      `--+--F. americana Gmelin 1789 JT12, L98 [incl. F. columbiana L98]
                         `--F. caribaea Ridgway 1884 L98

Fulica Linnaeus 1758 CC10 [incl. Lycornis Bonaparte 1856 L98, Nesophalaris Brodkorb & Dawson 1962 CC10, Palaeolimnas Forbes 1893 CC10, Phalaria Reichenbach 1853 L98]

Fulica atra australis Gould 1845 [incl. F. atra ingrami Mathews 1912, F. tasmanica Grant 1846, F. atra tasmanica] CC10

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[CC10] Checklist Committee (OSNZ). 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica 4^th ed. Ornithological Society of New Zealand and Te Papa Press: Wellington.

[G-RGT14] Garcia-R, J. C., G. C. Gibb & S. A. Trewick. 2014. Deep global evolutionary radiation in birds: diversification and trait evolution in the cosmopolitan bird family Rallidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 81: 96–108.

[GM91] Gill, B., & P. Martinson. 1991. New Zealand’s Extinct Birds. Random Century: Auckland (New Zealand).

[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.

[L58] Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae.

[L98] Livezey, B. C. 1998. A phylogenetic analysis of the Gruiformes (Aves) based on morphological characters, with an emphasis on the rails (Rallidae). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B—Biological Sciences 353: 2077–2151.

[USDI77] USDI (United States Department of the Interior). 1977. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants—republication of list of species. Federal Register 42: 36420–36431.