Porzana

Porzana is a genus of birds in the crake or rail family, Rallidae. It has a global distribution, contains 13 living species, and 4-5 recently extinct ones. In addition, a large number of prehistorically extinct species known only from fossil or subfossil remains have been discovered.

Living species
 * Spotted Crake, Porzana porzana
 * Australian Crake, Porzana fluminea
 * Sora, Porzana carolina
 * Dot-winged Crake, Porzana spiloptera
 * Ash-throated Crake, Porzana albicollis

In other genera

 * Little Crake, Limnocorax parva
 * Baillon's Crake, Limnocorax pusilla
 * Ruddy-breasted Crake, Limnocorax fusca
 * Band-bellied Crake, Limnocorax paykullii
 * Spotless Crake, Limnocorax tabuensis
 * Red-eyed Crake, Limnocorax atra


 * Yellow-breasted Crake, Hapalocrex flaviventer


 * White-browed Crake, Poliolimnas cinerea

Extinct species
 * Porzana palmeri Frohawk, 1892 - Laysan Rail, (1944)
 * Porzana sandwichensis Gmelin, 1789 - Hawaiian Rail, (c.1890)
 * Porzana monasa - Kosrae Crake,  (c. mid-late 19th century)
 * Porzana nigra J. F. Miller, 1784 - Miller's Rail, (18th century) only known by two paintings
 * Porzana astrictocarpus Olson, 1973 - Saint Helena Crake, (early 16th century)
 * Porzana ralphorum Olson, 1973 - Great Oahu Crake, (prehistoric)
 * Porzana severnsi Olson, 1973 - Great Maui Crake (prehistoric)
 * Porzana rua - Mangaia Crake (prehistoric)
 * Porzana menehune - Liliput Crake (prehistoric)
 * Porzana ziegleri - Small Oahu Crake (prehistoric)
 * Porzana keplerorum - Small Maui Crake (prehistoric)
 * Porzana estramosi - (Sajóvölgyi Middle? - Late Miocene of Hungary)
 * Porzana piercei - (Shore Hills Late Pleistocene of Bermuda, W Atlantic)
 * Porzana cf. flaviventer (Bermuda, West Atlantic)
 * Easter Island Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
 * Great Big Island Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
 * Great Kauai Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
 * Huahine Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
 * Mangaia Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
 * Marquesas Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
 * Marianas Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric) - possibly 2 species
 * Medium Kauai Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
 * Medium Maui Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
 * Small Big Island Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)

The Middle Pleistocene fossil described as Porzana auffenbergi is now placed in Rallus.