sentences:  The genus "Rallus" was erected in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his "Systema Naturae".The type species was subsequently designated as the water rail ("Rallus aquaticus").The genus name "Rallus" comes from the pre-binomial Latin name "Rallus aquaticus" for the water rail used by English ornithologist Francis Willughby in 1676, and by the English naturalist Eleazar Albin in 1731.