中国的紫水鸡——其分布与种下分类问题的回顾与探讨

The Purple Gallinule in China — A Review on Its Distribution and the Subspecies

自Swinhoe的早期记录跨越140余年后,2012年3月紫水鸡(Porphyrio porphyrio)终于在厦门被重新发现并得以确认其繁殖群的存在。继而在检视以往文献过程中,注意到对于紫水鸡在中国状况的认识,无论是对其分布,还是亚种认定,均多存疑问之处。本文对紫水鸡在中国南方各省(区)的发现和记录过程做了大致梳理,概述了以往对中国东南沿海地区紫水鸡分布认识误区的产生原因,并指出当今中国鸟类学界对中国紫水鸡亚种分布态势上的不同意见。作者提出这些问题与同行探讨,以期促成消弭疑问,并希望鸟学界同仁能够关注紫水鸡在中国的动态变化与发展。

Recent rediscovery of the Purple Gallinule （Porphyrio porphyrio） at Xiamen （Amoy） together with its breeding colony has more likely than not shown a continuous occurrence of bird to the locality in the last 150 years since R. Swinhoe, and the current knowledge on the range of the bird in the China's Mainland is to become much larger than known before. Whilst, along with those new records of the bird emerged in southern China in the last decade years, recognition of the subspecies argued, and, if this paper could encourage drawing a bit more attention on the status of the Purple Gallinule in China in the years to come, the authors will be very pleased.