Lewinia
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| Lewinia | |
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| Auckland rail (Lewinia muelleri) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Gruiformes |
| Family: | Rallidae |
| Genus: | Lewinia Gray, GR, 1855 |
| Type species | |
| Rallus lewini[1] Swainson, 1838 | |
| Species | |
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Lewinia is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae.
The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with Lewin's rail Lewinia pectoralis as the type species.[2] The genus name is from a synonym of the type species Rallus lewinii Swainson, 1837.[3] The common name commemorates the English engraver and naturalist John Lewin (1770–1819) who settled in Australia.[4]
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