Slaty-breasted rail explained

The slaty-breasted rail (Lewinia striata) is a rail species native to the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Breeding has been recorded in July near Dehradun in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas.^[1] Despite traditionally being considered part of Gallirallus, recent genetic studies have consistently placed it in the genus Lewinia,^{[2] [3]} which is now formally recognised by the IUCN and IOC.

Notes and References

1. Kumar P. . amp . Kumar R.S. . 2009 . Record of Slaty-breasted Rail Rallus striatus breeding in Dehradun, India . Indian Birds . 5 . 1 . 21–22.
2. Garcia-R . J. C. . Gibb . G. C. . Trewick. S. A. . amp . 2014 . Deep global evolutionary radiation in birds: Diversification and trait evolution in the cosmopolitan bird family Rallidae . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 81. 96–108 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.09.008. 25255711 . 2014MolPE..81...96G .
3. Chen . P. . Huan . Z. . Zhu . C. . Han . Y. . Xu . Z. . Sun . G. . Zhang . Z. . Zhao . D. . Ge . G. . Ruan . L. . amp . 2020 . Complete Mitochondrial Genome and Phylogenetic Analysis of Gruiformes and Charadriiformes . Pakistan Journal of Zoology . 52 . 2 . 425–439 . 10.17582/journal.pjz/20190603010623 . free .