From Sci-News.com:
Paragallinula: Ornithologists Describe New Bird Genus
Jan 2, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro
An international team of ornithologists from Sweden and New Zealand has described a new genus for a bird species called the lesser moorhen.
The team, headed by Dr George Sangster from Swedish Museum of Natural History, named the new genus Paragallinula.
“The generic name is derived from the Greek para (beside) and the Latin gallinula (a little hen or chicken),” Dr Sangster and co-authors wrote in a paper in the European Journal of Taxonomy.
“It denotes the resemblance of P. angulata to species of Gallinula but highlights that they are independent evolutionary lineages.”
According to the scientists, Paragallinula angulata is found in most of the African continent from Senegal and Gambia to Ethiopia, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa.
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Looks very similar to the Moorhen we see in India.
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In India and Europe, there is the common moorhen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_moorhen
The lesser moorhen:
Click to access 227.pdf
is smaller, and also has other, subtle differences. If you go with your mouse over the picture at the top of the blog post, then the text mentions some of them.
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Thank you for the information. Identifying birds can be a challenge.
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Yes, there are about 10,000 bird species. And sometimes, new species are discovered 🙂
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am still struggling with the old ones. Once you learn the names, they rename them.
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In this case, the English name ‘lesser moorhen’ did not change. The scientific name changed, however, as the species is now in a genus of its own.
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