Lewinia [SEP] parent taxon
Lewinia
Lewinia is a genus of birds in the family Rallidae. 
The genus was erected by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with Lewin's rail "Lewinia pectoralis" as the type species. The genus name is from a synonym of the type species "Rallus lewinii" Swainson, 1837. The common name commemorates the English engraver and naturalist John Lewin (1770–1819) who settled in Australia.
The genus contains the following three species:
- Lewin's rail, "Lewinia pectoralis"
- Brown
the Indian Ocean genus "Dryolimnas", and the Australasian "Lewinia". Olson suggested the pro-"Rallus" rails have a relict distribution and would have been present in Africa and South America, where the ancestors of the Inaccessible Island rail came from. The most recent comparative morphological study to include the genus, in 1998, placed it in a subtribe Crecina of the crakes. Its exact position could not be determined, but it was suggested to perhaps be the sister taxon to the genus "Laterallus", a genus of small