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Western Swamphen
Porphyrio porphyrio · Family Rallidae
Porphyrio porphyrio
Family Rallidae
- Order
- Gruiformes
- Family
- Rallidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 800,000
- Countries and territories with records
- 143
About this species
This species has 800,000 occurrence records from 143 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Australia (31.5%), India (30.5%), Spain (11.5%), the United States (7.1%) and South Africa (6.2%); together they account for 86.8% of the total. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.23% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Porphyrio porphyrio combines the genus name Porphyrio with the species epithet porphyrio. The Warbla app catalog lists 9 species of the genus Porphyrio; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Porphyrio melanotus, Porphyrio martinica and Porphyrio poliocephalus.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 122 species of the family Rallidae. This species ranks 7th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Fulica americana. Its record count is 3.3 times the family average (243,573). The family Rallidae belongs to the order Gruiformes, which has 150 species in the Warbla app catalog.