<==o Rallina Rafinesque, 1815 (luhtakanat; long-billed rails)
|-- "Rallus" madagascariensis (Verreaux, 1833) (madagaskarinluhtakana; wine-breasted rail)
`--+--o Dryolimnas cuvieri (Pucheran, 1845) Sharpe, 1893 [Canirallus cuvieri] (sepelmetsähuitti; Madagascan rail)
| |-- D. c. cuvieri (Pucheran, 1845) (sepelmetsähuitti; Madagascan rail)
| |-- D. c. albabranus (Günther, 1879) (Aldabra Islands rail)
| `-- D. c. abbotti (Ridgway, 1894) (assumption Island rail)
`--+-- Rallus caerulescens Gmelin, 1779 (kafferiluhtakana; kaffir rail)
`--+--+== Rallus Linnaeus, 1758 (luhtakanat) [paraphyletic]
| `-- Gallirallus Lafresnaye, 1841 (wekaluhtakanat; lesser Pacific rails)
`--+--+--o Tricholimnas Sharpe, 1893 (metsähuitit; greater Pacific rails)
| | |-- T. lafresnayanus (Verreaux & Des Murs, 1860) (kanakkiluhtakana; New Caledonian rail)
| | `--o T. sylvestris (Sclater, 1896) (ruskoluhtakana)
| | |-- T. s. sylvestris (Sclater, 1896) (lordhowensaarenruskoluhtakana)
| | `-- T. s. conditicius Peters & Griscom, 1928 (gilbertsaartenruskoluhtakana; Gilbert Islands rail)
| `--o Nesoclopeus poecilopterus (Hartlaub, 1866) Peters, 1932 (salomoninrääkät)
| |-- N. p. poecilopterus (Hartlaub, 1866) (viiruluhtakana)
| |-- N. p. woodfordi (Ogilvie, 1889) (Cuadacanal bar-winged rail, Woodford's Rail)
| `-- N. p. immaculatus Mayr, 1949 (Ysabel bar-winged rail)
`--+-- Aramidopsis plateni (Blasius, 1886) Sharpe, 1893 (celebesinluhtakana)
`--+-- Cabalus modestus (Hutton, 1872) Hutton, 1874 (chathamsaartenluhtakana)
`--o Habropteryx Stresemann, 1932 (barred-rails)
|-- H. insignis (koiraluhtakana; New Britan barred-rail)
`--+-- H. okinawae (Yamashita & Mano, 1981) (okinawanluhtakana; okinawan barred-rail)
`--o H. torquatus (Linnaeus, 1766) (viiksiluhtakana)
|-- H. t. celebensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830) (Celebes barred-rail)
|-- H. t. torquatus (Linnaeus, 1766) (viiksiluhtakana; Philippine barred-rail)
`-- H. t. sulcirostris (Wallace, 1862) [incl. kuehni, limarius, remigialis] (Eastern barred-rail)
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Last updated: 2002-09-15