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Gallinula chloropus (Eurasian moorhen)

Osteichthyes - Gruiformes - Rallidae

Taxonomy

Fulica chloropus was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Gallinula chloropus by Wetmore (1918), Wetmore (1931), Wetmore (1933), Wetmore (1940), Wetmore (1956), Olson (1975), Olson (1977), Olson and James (1982), Weesie (1988), Goodman (1999), Mlikovsky (2002), Steadman et al. (2003), Steadman and Mead (2010), Clements et al. (2017), Michailidis et al. (2018), Carrera et al. (2018).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Strombus deformis, Strombus malekulensis, Strombus minimus

Synonyms

Gallinula brodkorbi was named by McCoy (1963). Its type specimen is UF/PB 16 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ichetucknee River, which is in the Pleistocene of horizon Florida.

It was synonymized subjectively with Gallinula chloropus by Olson (1974); it was recombined as Gallinula chloropus brodkorbi by Olson (1977).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Fulica chloropus Linnaeus p. 152
1918	Gallinula chloropus Wetmore p. 520
1931	Gallinula chloropus Wetmore p. 39
1933	Gallinula chloropus Wetmore p. 12
1940	Gallinula chloropus Wetmore p. 53
1956	Gallinula chloropus Wetmore p. 65
1963	Gallinula brodkorbi McCoy p. 344 fig. 3
1967	Gallinula brodkorbi Brodkorb p. 125
1975	Gallinula chloropus Olson p. 25
1977	Gallinula chloropus Olson p. 350
1977	Gallinula chloropus brodkorbi Olson p. 350
1982	Gallinula chloropus Olson and James p. 36
1988	Gallinula chloropus Weesie p. 25 figs. Pl 6, fig 1
1999	Gallinula chloropus Goodman
2002	Gallinula chloropus Mlikovsky p. 178
2003	Gallinula chloropus Steadman et al.
2010	Gallinula chloropus Steadman and Mead p. 435
2017	Gallinula chloropus Clements et al.
2018	Gallinula chloropus Carrera et al. p. 154 figs. Pl 1, fig 9
2018	Gallinula chloropus Michailidis et al. p. 87 fig. 2L

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda

Rank	Name	Author
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Saurischia	()
—	Theropoda	()
—	Neotheropoda
—	Averostra	Paul 2002
—	Tetanurae
—	Coelurosauria	()
—	Maniraptora
—	Paraves
class	Aves
subclass	Neornithes	Gadow 1893
—	Neognathae	(Pycraft 1900)
—	Neoaves	Sibley et al. 1988
—	Terrestrornithes
—	Telmatorae
superorder	Charadriimorphae	Huxley 1867
order	Gruiformes	Bonaparte 1854
family	Rallidae	Vigors 1825
genus	Gallinula	Brisson 1760
species	chloropus	()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Gallinula chloropus Linnaeus 1758 [Eurasian moorhen]

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Invalid names: Gallinula brodkorbi McCoy 1963 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteo

Entire body:

yeso

Adult length:

10 to < 100o

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10o

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10o

Architecture:

compact or denseo

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partso

Grouping:

solitaryo

Environment:

terrestrialo

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

ground dwellingo

Diet:

carnivoresubo

Reproduction:

oviparouso

Dispersal:

direct/internalo

Dispersal 2:

mobileo

Created:

2009-01-03 20:39:15

Modified:

2009-01-03 22:39:15

Source: subo = suborder, o = order

References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Holocene or 3.60000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (25 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pliocene	3.6 - 2.58	USA (Idaho)	Gallinula chloropus (176409)
Calabrian	1.8 - 0.774	Spain (Palencia)	Gallinula chloropus (213667)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	Greece	Gallinula chloropus (199938)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	United Kingdom (Norfolk)	Gallinula chloropus (49816)
Middle Pleistocene - Holocene	0.774 - 0.0	United Kingdom	Gallinula chloropus (197163)
Rancholabrean	0.21 - 0.014	Mexico (Sonora)	Gallinula chloropus (20495)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Greece (Crete)	Gallinula chloropus (192951)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)	0.129 - 0.0117	USA (Florida)	Gallinula chloropus (20573 20595 20636)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (glacial)	0.129 - 0.0117	USA (Florida)	Gallinula chloropus (154771)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Egypt	Gallinula chloropus (208788)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	USA (Florida)	Gallinula brodkorbi, Gallinula chloropus (154773) Gallinula chloropus (154922)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Jordan	Gallinula chloropus (197945)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	Italy	Gallinula chloropus (197769)
Late/Upper Pleistocene	0.129 - 0.0117	USA (Virginia)	Gallinula chloropus (103991)
Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene	0.129 - 0.0	Madagascar	Gallinula chloropus (95824 95827)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Virgin Islands, U.S.	Gallinula chloropus (38847)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	United Kingdom	Gallinula chloropus (125443)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Venezuela	Gallinula chloropus (148207 241336)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Madagascar (Toliara)	Gallinula chloropus (92733)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Mexico (Chiapas)	Gallinula chloropus (195047)