Song Thrush
Song Thrush
Here the details of the Song Thrush named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Turdus philomelos Handb.Naturgesch.Vog.Deutschl. p.382
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Turdidae / Turdus
Taxonomy Code: sonthr1
Type Locality: wanders in April and October through central Germany.
Author: Brehm, CL
Publish Year: 1831
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
TURDUS
(Turdidae; Ϯ Mistle Thrush T. viscivorus) L. turdus thrush; "95. TURDUS. Rostrum tereti-cultratum, maxilla superiore apice deflexo. Nares nudæ, superne membranula semitectæ. Lingua lacero-emarginata." (Linnaeus 1758); "Turdus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 168. Type, by subsequent designation (Gray, 1840, List Gen. Birds, p. 27), Turdus viscivorus Linnaeus." (Ripley in Peters 1964, X, 177). Linnaeus's Turdus comprised sixteen species (T. viscivorus, T. pilaris, T. iliacus, T. musicus, T. Canorus, T. rufus, T. polyglottos, T. Orpheus, T. plumbeus, T. crinitus, T. roseus, T. Merula, T. torquatus, T. solitarius, T. arundinaceus, T. virens).
Var. Turus, Trudus, Turtus, Curdus.
Synon. Afrocichla, Arceuthornis, Cichlherminia, Cichloides, Cichloselys, Copsichus, Copsicus, Cossyphopsis, Galeoscoptes, Haplocichla, Hodoiporus, Iliacus, Ixocossyphus, Lamprophonus, Melizocincla, Meridiocichla, Merula, Merulissima, Mimocichla, Mimokitta, Nesocichla, Peliocichla, Petrocincla, Planesticus, Platycichla, Semimerula, Thoracocincla, Turdela, Turdicus.
turdus
L. turdus thrush.
● ex “Grivetin” of Levaillant 1802, pl. 118 < French Grive thrush (syn. Erythropygia leucophrys).
● "89. Loxia Turdus F. ... Habitat in insula australi Novae Zeeelandiae, simillima Turdo, statura, colore, pedibus. Corpus magnitudine Turdi viscivori, supra fuscum." (Forster 1844) (syn. Turnagra capensis).
philomelos
L. philomela nightingale (Gr. myth Philomela, daughter of Pandion, king of Athens, was violated by her brother-in-law Tereus and changed into a nightingale) (Turdus).
SUBSPECIES
Song Thrush (hebridensis)
SCI Name: Turdus philomelos hebridensis
hebridalis / hebridensis / hebridicus / hebridium
Inner and Outer Hebrides, an archipelago off the western coast of Scotland.
Song Thrush (clarkei)
SCI Name: Turdus philomelos clarkei
clarkei
● Col. Stephenson Robert Clarke (1862-1948) British Army, naturalist, traveller, big-game hunter, sponsored plant-hunting expeditions (subsp. Amandava subflava, subsp. Ithaginis cruentus, syn. Turdoides leucopygia lacuum).
● William Eagle Clarke (1853-1938) British civil engineer, ornithologist, Curator of Leeds Mus. 1884-1887, Keeper of Natural History Dept., Royal Scottish Mus. 1909-1921 (syn. Catharacta antarctica loennbergi, subsp. Turdus philomelos).
Song Thrush (philomelos)
SCI Name: Turdus philomelos philomelos
philomelos
L. philomela nightingale (Gr. myth Philomela, daughter of Pandion, king of Athens, was violated by her brother-in-law Tereus and changed into a nightingale) (Turdus).
Song Thrush (nataliae)
SCI Name: Turdus philomelos nataliae
nataliae
● Caroline Natalie Rosalie Kaup (b. 1835) daughter of German systematist Johann J. Kaup (subsp. Sphyrapicus thyroideus).
● Female eponym; dedicatee not yet identified (S. A. Buturlin 1929, Sistematicheskiye zametki o ptitsakh Severnogo Kavkaza, 15) (subsp. Turdus philomelos).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)