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===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 |- |[[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 |- |}
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