Usambara Thrush

Usambara Thrush / Turdus roehli

Usambara Thrush

Here the details of the Usambara Thrush named bird below:

SCI Name:  Turdus roehli
Protonym:  Turdus roehli Orn.Monatsb. 13 p. 182
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae /
Taxonomy Code:  usathr1
Type Locality:  Mlalo, near Lushota, Usambara Mountains.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1905
IUCN Status:  

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. TurusTrudus, 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).

roehli
● Pastor Dr Karl Roehl (1870-1951) German missionary to German East Africa 1904-1907 (subsp. Apus barbatus, subsp. Arizelocichla masukuensis, syn. Bradypterus lopesi usambarae, syn. Muscicapa adusta minima, Turdus).
● Dr Eduardo Röhl (1891-1959) Venezuelan astronomer, Director of Astronomical Observatory, Caracas (subsp. Picumnus squamulatus).