Editing Coot (section)

==Taxonomy and systematics==
The [[genus]] ''Fulica'' was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=152 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727059 }}</ref> The genus name is the [[Latin]] word for a [[Eurasian coot]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=165 }}</ref> The name was used by the Swiss naturalist [[Conrad Gessner]] in 1555.<ref>{{cite book| last=Gesner | first=Conrad | author-link=Conrad Gessner | title=Historiae animalium liber III qui est de auium natura. Adiecti sunt ab initio indices alphabetici decem super nominibus auium in totidem linguis diuersis: & ante illos enumeratio auium eo ordiné quo in hoc volumine continentur | year=1555 | publisher= Froschauer | location=Zurich | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52661257 | page=375}}</ref> The [[type species]] is the Eurasian coot.<ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1934 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=2 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=211 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483024 }}</ref>

A group of coots is referred to as a ''covert''<ref>{{cite web|title=What do you call a group of ...?|url=http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/page/collectivenouns_us|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501131302/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/page/collectivenouns_us|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 1, 2011|work=Oxford Dictionaries|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=19 April 2011}}</ref> or ''cover''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://baltimorebirdclub.org/gnlist.html| title=Baltimore Bird Club. Group Name for Birds: A Partial List|access-date=2007-06-03}}</ref>

===Species===
The genus contains 10 extant species and one which  is now extinct.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Flufftails, finfoots, rails, trumpeters, cranes, limpkin | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/flufftails/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=19 August 2021 }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution
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|[[File:Hawaiian Coot RWD1.jpg|120px]] || ''Fulica alai'' <small>[[Titian Peale|Peale]], 1848</small>|| [[Hawaiian coot]] or ''{{okina}}Alae ke{{okina}}oke{{okina}}o'' || Hawaii
|-
|[[File:American coot in Prospect Park (06152).jpg|120px]] || ''Fulica americana'' <small>[[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|Gmelin]], 1789</small>|| [[American coot]] ||southern Quebec to the Pacific coast of North America and as far south as northern South America
|-
|[[File:Andean Coot RWD3.jpg|120px]] || ''Fulica ardesiaca'' <small>[[Johann Jakob von Tschudi|Tschudi]], 1843</small>|| [[Andean coot]] ||Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
|-
|[[File:Red-gartered Coot RWD8.jpg|120px]] || ''Fulica armillata'' <small>[[Louis Pierre Vieillot|Vieillot]], 1817</small>|| [[red-gartered coot]] ||Argentina, southern Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay
|-
|[[File:Common Coot Eurasian coot Fulica atra by Dr. Raju Kasambe DSCN3784 (1).jpg|120px]] || ''Fulica atra'' <small>[[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]</small>|| [[Eurasian coot]] or common coot ||Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa
|-
|[[File:Fulica cornuta 117475270.jpg|120px]] || ''Fulica cornuta'' <small>[[Charles Lucien Bonaparte|Bonaparte]], 1853</small>|| [[horned coot]] ||Argentina, Bolivia, Chile
|-
|[[File:Fulica cristata -Cape Town, South Africa -adult-8.jpg|120px]] || '' Fulica cristata'' <small>[[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|Gmelin]], 1789</small>|| [[red-knobbed coot]] ||Africa, Iberian Peninsula
|-
|[[File:Riesenblaesshuhn fulica gigantea Chile crop.jpg|120px]] || ''Fulica gigantea'' <small>[[Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux|Eydoux]] & Souleyet, 1841</small>|| [[giant coot]] ||Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru
|-
|[[File:Fulica leucoptera GALLARETA CHICA.jpg|120px]] || ''Fulica leucoptera'' <small>[[Louis Pierre Vieillot|Vieillot]], 1817</small>|| [[white-winged coot]] ||Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Falkland Islands, Paraguay, Uruguay
|-
|[[File:Fulica rufifrons - Red-fronted coot; Punta del Este, Uruguay.jpg|120px]] || ''Fulica rufifrons'' <small>Philppi & Landbeck, 1861</small>|| [[red-fronted coot]] ||Argentina, southern Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, southern Peru, Uruguay
|-
|}

===Extinct species===

==== Recently extinct species ====
* {{dagger}}''Fulica newtonii'' <small>[[Alphonse Milne-Edwards|Milne-Edwards]], 1867</small> – [[Mascarene coot]] ([[extinction|extinct]], c. 1700)

==== Late Quaternary species ====

* {{dagger}}''Fulica chathamensis'' <small>[[Henry Ogg Forbes|Forbes]], 1892</small> – [[Chatham Island coot]] ([[early Holocene]] of the [[Chatham Islands]])<!-- Auk79:267 -->
* {{dagger}}''Fulica montanei'' <small>Alarcón-Muñoz, Labarca & Soto-Acuña, 2020</small> (late Pleistocene to early Holocene of [[Chile]])<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Alarcón-Muñoz|first1=Jhonatan|last2=Labarca|first2=Rafael|last3=Soto-Acuña|first3=Sergio|date=2020-12-01|title=The late Pleistocene–early Holocene rails (Gruiformes: Rallidae) of Laguna de Tagua Tagua Formation, central Chile, with the description of a new extinct giant coot |url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0895981120303825 |journal=Journal of South American Earth Sciences |language=en |volume=104 |page=102839 |doi=10.1016/j.jsames.2020.102839|bibcode=2020JSAES.10402839A|s2cid=225031984 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* {{dagger}}''Fulica prisca'' <small>[[Augustus Hamilton|Hamilton]], 1893</small> – [[New Zealand coot]] (early Holocene of [[New Zealand]]) <!-- Auk79:267 -->
*{{dagger}}''Fulica shufeldti'' – ([[late Pleistocene]] of [[Florida]]) possibly a [[Chronospecies|paleosubspecies]] of ''Fulica americana''; formerly ''F. minor''<!-- Auk80:335; Auk90:438; Condor49:10; Condor69:24 -->

==== Fossil species ====

* {{dagger}}''Fulica infelix'' <small>[[Pierce Brodkorb|Brodkorb]], 1961</small> – (early [[Pliocene]] of [[Juntura, Oregon|Juntura]], [[Malheur County, Oregon|Malheur County]], Oregon, USA)