Species in Taxonomic Order
- Fulica cristata - Red-knobbed Coot (Africa, Iberian Peninsula)
- Fulica atra - Eurasian Coot or Common Coot
- Fulica alai - Hawaiian Coot or ʻAlae keʻokeʻo
- Fulica americana - American Coot
- Fulica caribaea - Caribbean Coot
- Fulica leucoptera - White-winged Coot (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Falkland Islands, Paraguay, Uruguay)
- Fulica ardesiaca - Andean Coot (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)
- Fulica armillata - Red-gartered Coot (Argentina, southern Brazil,Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay)
- Fulica rufifrons - Red-fronted Coot (Argentina, southern Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, southern Peru, Uruguay)
- Fulica gigantea - Giant Coot (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru)
- Fulica cornuta - Horned Coot (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile)
- Fulica newtoni - Mascarene Coot (extinct, c.1700)
- Fulica chathamensis - Chatham Coot (prehistoric)
- Fulica prisca - New Zealand Coot (prehistoric)
- Fulica infelix (fossil: Early Pliocene of Juntura, Malheur County, Oregon, USA)
- Fulica shufeldti (fossil: Pleistocene of North America) - possibly a subspecies of Fulica americana; formerly F. minor
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