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Mangrove Rail
Clapper Rail
King Rail
Rallus elegans
Order:
Gruiformes
Family:
Rallidae
Polytypic: 2 subspecies
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Recommended Citation
King Rail
(
Rallus elegans
), In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online:
https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/kinrai4