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Australasian Swamphen
Porphyrio melanotus · Family Rallidae
Porphyrio melanotus
Family Rallidae
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Rallidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 584,280
- Countries and territories with records
- 19
About this species
This species has 584,280 occurrence records from 19 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (77.9%) and New Zealand (21.3%); together they account for 99.2% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.42% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Porphyrio melanotus combines the genus name Porphyrio with the species epithet melanotus. The Warbla app catalog lists 9 species of the genus Porphyrio; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Porphyrio porphyrio, Porphyrio martinica and Porphyrio poliocephalus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 122 species of the family Rallidae. This species ranks 11th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Fulica americana. Its record count is 2.4 times the family average (243,573). The family Rallidae belongs to the order Gruiformes, which has 150 species in the Warbla app catalog.