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Often considered conspecific with King Rail (Rallus elegans), provisionally treated as forming superspecies. Californian subspecies levipes, obsoletus and yumanensis sometimes placed in King Rail (Rallus elegans). Subspecies tenuirostris of King Rail (Rallus elegans) sometimes transferred to present species. Hybridization with King Rail (Rallus elegans) occurs occasionally in areas of sympatry.

The following 23 subspecies are recognised:

• obsoletus Ridgway, 1874   -  Central California, mainly in San Francisco Bay. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Ridgway's Rail (Rallus obsoletus).
• levipes Bangs, 1899   -  Coastal central California to northern Baja California. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Ridgway's Rail (Rallus obsoletus).
• yumanensis Dickey, 1923   -  South-eastern California, southern Arizona and north-western Mexico. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Ridgway's Rail (Rallus obsoletus).
• beldingi Ridgway, 1882   -  Southern Baja California. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Ridgway's Rail (Rallus obsoletus).
• crepitans Gmelin, 1789   -  Coastal Connecticut south to north-eastern North Carolina. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
• waynei Brewster, 1899   -  Coastal south-eastern North Carolina to eastern Florida. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
• saturatus Ridgway, 1880   -  Gulf coast from south-western Alabama to extreme north-eastern Mexico (Tamaulipas). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
• pallidus Nelson, 1905   -  Coastal Yucatán (south-eastern Mexico). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
• grossi Paynter, 1950   -  Quintana Roo (south-eastern Mexico). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
• belizensis Oberholser, 1937   -  Ycacos Lagoon, Belize. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
• scotti Sennett, 1888   -  Coastal Florida.
• insularum W. S. Brooks, 1920   -  Florida Keys. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
• coryi Maynard, 1887   -  Bahamas. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
• leucophaeus Todd, 1913   -  I of Pines (Cuba). Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
• caribaeus Ridgway, 1880   -  Cuba to Puerto Rico and Lesser Antilles east to Antigua, also Guadeloupe. Considered by some authors to be a subspecies of Clapper Rail (Rallus crepitans).
• cypereti Taczanowski, 1878   -  Coasts from extreme south-western Colombia (Nariño) through Ecuador to extreme north-western Peru (Tumbes).
• phelpsi Wetmore, 1941   -  Extreme north-eastern Colombia and extreme north-western Venezuela.
• margaritae Zimmer, JT & Phelps, 1944   -  Margarita I (Venezuela).
• pelodramus Oberholser, 1937   -  Trinidad.
• longirostris Boddaert, 1783   -  Coasts of Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana.
• crassirostris Lawrence, 1871   -  Coastal Brazil from Amazon estuary to Santa Catarina.
• dillonripleyi Phelps Jr & Aveledo, 1987   -  North-eastern Venezuela.
• berryorum Maley et al., 2016   -  Pacific coast of eastern El Salvador, Honduras, and northern Nicaragua; population in north-western Costa Rica presumably also refers to this subspecies.

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