Porzana is a genus of birds with a global distribution.
Living species
- Porzana parva Scopoli, 1769 – Little Crake (breeds in Eurasia, winters in Africa)
- Porzana pusilla Pallas, 1776 – Baillon’s Crake (breeds in Eurasia, winters in east Africa and South Asia)
- Porzana porzana Linnaeus, 1766 – Spotted Crake (breeds in Eurasia, winters in Africa and India)
- Porzana fluminea Gould, 1843 – Australian Spotted Crake
- Porzana carolina Linnaeus, 1758 – Sora (North America)
- Porzana spiloptera Durnford, 1877 – Dot-winged Crake (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay)
- Porzana albicollis Vieillot, 1819 – Ash-throated Crake (South America)
- Porzana fusca Linnaeus, 1766 – Ruddy-breasted Crake (Asia)
- Porzana paykullii Ljungh, 1813 – Band-bellied Crake (East Asia)
- Porzana tabuensis Gmelin, 1789 – Spotless Crake (Oceania)
- Porzana atra North, 1980 – Henderson Crake (Henderson Island)
- Porzana flaviventer Boddaert, 1783 – Yellow-breasted Crake (Central and South America, Caribbean)
- Porzana cinerea Vieillot, 1819 – White-browed Crake (East Asia, Oceania)
Extinct species
- Porzana palmeri Frohawk, 1892 – Laysan Rail, (1944)
- Porzana sandwichensis Gmelin, 1789 – Hawaiian Rail, (c.1890)
- Porzana monasa – Kosrae Island Crake, (c. mid-late 19th century)
- Porzana nigra J. F. Miller, 1784 – Miller’s Rail, (18th century) only known by two paintings
- Porzana astrictocarpus Olson, 1973 – Saint Helena Crake, (early 16th century)
- Porzana ralphorum Olson, 1973 – Great Oʻahu Crake, (prehistoric)
- Porzana severnsi Olson, 1973 – 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)
