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Rallus longirostris (Mangrove Rail)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The mangrove rail (Rallus longirostris) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae.It is found in South America. It was formerly considered conspecific with the clapper rail (Rallus crepitans). Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical mangrove forests and coastal saline lagoons.It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Rallus longirostris

Infraspecies

Rallus longirostris beldingi
Rallus longirostris belizensis (Honduras clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris berryorum
Rallus longirostris caribaeus (Antillean clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris coryi (Bahama clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris crassirostris (Brazilian clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris crepitans (Northern clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris cypereti (Peruvian clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris dillonripleyi
Rallus longirostris grossi (Clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris insularum (Mangrove clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris leucophaeus (Isle of Pines clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris levipes (Light-footed Clapper Rail)
Rallus longirostris longirostris (Guianan clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris margaritae (Clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris obsoletus (California Clapper Rail) (Attributes)
Rallus longirostris pallidus (Yucatan clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris pelodramus (Clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris phelpsi (Clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris saturatus (Louisiana clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris scottii (Clapper Rail) (Attributes)
Rallus longirostris waynei (Wayne's clapper rail)
Rallus longirostris yumanensis (Yuma Clapper Rail) (Attributes)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
19
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.38391
EDGE Score: 1.9993
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  295 grams
Birth Weight [1]  15 grams
Female Weight [1]  267 grams
Male Weight [1]  323 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  21 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Coastal saltmarshes, Mangroves
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Coastal saltmarshes, Mangroves
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore, Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Ectothermic [3]  10 %
Diet - Endothermic [3]  10 %
Diet - Fish [3]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [3]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  30 %
Diet - Plants [3]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [3]  10 %
Forages - Understory [3]  10 %
Forages - Ground [3]  40 %
Forages - Water Surface [3]  40 %
Forages - Underwater [3]  10 %
Clutch Size [5]  7
Clutches / Year [4]  2
Fledging [1]  65 days
Incubation [4]  22 days
Maximum Longevity [4]  8 years
Female Maturity [4]  1 year
Male Maturity [4]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[7]

Consumers

Range Map

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 6Cirtwill, Alyssa R.; Eklöf, Anna (2018), Data from: Feeding environment and other traits shape species' roles in marine food webs, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1mv20r6
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0