Black-eared Ground-Thrush

Black-eared Ground-Thrush / Geokichla camaronensis

Black-eared Ground-Thrush

Here the details of the Black-eared Ground-Thrush named bird below:

SCI Name:  Geokichla camaronensis
Protonym:  Geocichla cameronensis Ibis p.472
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bkegrt1
Type Locality:  Efulen, Cameroon.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1905
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

GEOKICHLA
(Turdidae; Ϯ Orange-headed Thrush G. citrina) Gr. γεω- geō- ground-  < γη gē  earth; κιχλη kikhlē  thrush; "Vogels.   ...   Geo-Kichla singularis." (Macklot 1830) (nom. nud.); "Myiothera loricata, MULL., pl. V. fig. 5.  Behoort tot de afdeeling der grootere soorten van vliegenjagers, bij welke de staart iets meer verlengd is, en die door geheele gedaante reeds sterk tot de lijsters (Turdi) naderen. Tusschen hen en dit laatste geslacht staat het genus: Geokichla BOIE, waarvan de Turdus citrinus LATH. de typus is." (S. Müller 1835); "Geokichla Müller, 1835, Tijdschr. Natuur. Gesch. Phys., 2, pl. 3, p. 348.  Type, by original designation, Turdus citrinus Latham." (Ripley in Peters, 1964, X, p. 144). 
Synon. Cryptocichla, Geocichloides, Pseudoturdus, Turdulus.

geokichla
Gr. γεω- geō-  ground-  < γη gē  earth; κιχλη kikhlē  thrush.

camaronensis / camaroonensis
German Cameroon or Kamerun / Cameroon.

SUBSPECIES

Black-eared Ground-Thrush (Cameroon)
SCI Name: Geokichla camaronensis camaronensis
camaronensis / camaroonensis
German Cameroon or Kamerun / Cameroon.

Black-eared Ground-Thrush (Grauer's)
SCI Name: Geokichla camaronensis graueri
graueri
Rudolf Grauer (1871-1927) Austrian ornithologist, collector in tropical Africa 1904-1911 (subsp. Asio abyssinicus, Bradypterus, Ceblepyris, subsp. Chlorophoneus multicolor, subsp. Cinnyris stuhlmanni, subsp. Crithagra striolata, subsp. Dyaphorophyia ansorgei, syn. Estrilda atricapilla kandti, subsp. Euschistospiza cinereovinacea, subsp. Geokichla camaronensis, syn. Otus senegalensis, subsp. Phyllastrephus flavostriatus, syn. Ploceus cucullatus, syn. Polyboroides typus, subsp. Prinia subflava, Pseudocalyptomena, subsp. Turdus pelios).