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title: "Spotless Crake"
description: "Zapornia tabuensis — Ptaki. The spotless crake (Zapornia tabuensis) is a species of bird in the rail family, Rallidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/spotless-crake
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Spotless Crake

> Zapornia tabuensis — Ptaki. The spotless crake (Zapornia tabuensis) is a species of bird in the rail family, Rallidae.

- Scientific name: *Zapornia tabuensis*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Jeziora i rzeki)
- iNaturalist observations: 940
- Wikidata: [Q28122937](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28122937)
- iNaturalist taxon: [508926](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/508926)

## Names

- en: Spotless Crake
- de: Südseesumpfhuhn
- es: Polluela de Tongatapu
- fr: Marouette fuligineuse

## Countries with the most observations

AU (677), NZ (179), PF (3)

## Summary

The spotless crake (Zapornia tabuensis) is a species of bird in the rail family, Rallidae. It is widely distributed species occurring from the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand across the southern Pacific Ocean to the Marquesas Islands to the south east along the Tuamotus island chain to Pitcairn Oeno island.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotless_crake

## Photo

![Spotless Crake](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/spotless-crake/medium.jpg)

Photo: n_armstrong · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/262879550

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/spotless-crake?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).