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
- Porzana parva - Little Crake (breeds in Eurasia, winters in Africa)
- Porzana pusilla - Baillon's Crake (breeds in Eurasia, winters in east Africa and South Asia)
- Porzana porzana - Spotted Crake (breeds in Eurasia, winters in Africa and India)
- Porzana fluminea - Australian Spotted Crake
- Porzana carolina - Sora (North America)
- Porzana spiloptera - Dot-winged Crake (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay)
- Porzana albicollis - Ash-throated Crake (South America)
- Porzana fusca - Ruddy-breasted Crake (Asia)
- Porzana paykullii - Band-bellied Crake (East Asia)
- Porzana tabuensis - Spotless Crake (Oceania)
- Porzana atra - Red-eyed Crake (Henderson Island)
- Porzana flaviventer - Yellow-breasted Crake (Central and South America, Caribbean)
- Porzana cinerea - White-browed Crake (East Asia, Oceania)
Extinct species
- Porzana palmeri - Laysan Rail, (1944)
- Porzana sandwichensis - Hawaiian Rail, (c.1890)
- Porzana monasa - Kosrae Crake, (c. mid-late 19th century)
- Porzana nigra - Miller's Rail, (18th century) only known by two paintings
- Porzana astrictocarpus - Saint Helena Crake, (early 16th century)
- Porzana ralphorum - Great Oʻahu Crake, (prehistoric)
- Porzana severnsi - Great Maui Crake (prehistoric)
- Porzana rua - Mangaia Crake (prehistoric)
- Porzana menehune - Liliput Crake (prehistoric)
- Porzana ziegleri - Small Oʻahu 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 Kauaʻi Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Huahine Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Mangaia Crake#2, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Marquesas Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric)
- Marianas Crake, Porzana sp. (prehistoric) - possibly 2 species
- Medium Kauaʻi 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.