Yellow-legged Thrush
Yellow-legged Thrush
Here the details of the Yellow-legged Thrush named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Turdus flavipes Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat. 20 p.277
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Turdidae / Turdus
Taxonomy Code: yelthr1
Type Locality: Brazil [= Rio de Janeiro; vide Hellmayr, 1934, ibid., p. 425] .
Author: Vieillot
Publish Year: 1818
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).
flavipes
L. flavus yellow, golden-yellow; pes, pedis foot < Gr. πους pous, ποδος podos foot.
● ex “Water-hen called Ochropus” of Willughby 1676, “Gallinula ochropus major” of Ray 1713, “Porphyrio rufus” of Brisson 1760, “Smirring” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Yellow-legged Gallinule” of Latham 1785 (syn. Gallinula chloropus).
● ex “Yellowshanks” of Pennant 1785 (Tringa).
SUBSPECIES
Yellow-legged Thrush (venezuelensis)
SCI Name: Turdus flavipes venezuelensis
venezuelae / venezuelana / venezuelanus / venezuelense / venezuelensis
Venezuela (Italian Venezuola, a diminutive of Venezia Venice, alluding to native houses on stilts in the waters of Lake Maracaibo).
Yellow-legged Thrush (melanopleura)
SCI Name: Turdus flavipes melanopleura
melanopleura
Gr. μελας melas, μελανος melanos black; πλευρα pleura side, flank.
Yellow-legged Thrush (xanthoscelus)
SCI Name: Turdus flavipes xanthoscelus
xanthoscela / xanthosceles / xanthoscelus
Gr. ξανθος xanthos yellow; σκελος skelos leg.
Yellow-legged Thrush (polionotus)
SCI Name: Turdus flavipes polionotus
polionota / polionotum / polionotus
Gr. πολιος polios grey; -νωτος -nōtos -backed < νωτον nōton back.
Yellow-legged Thrush (flavipes)
SCI Name: Turdus flavipes flavipes
flavipes
L. flavus yellow, golden-yellow; pes, pedis foot < Gr. πους pous, ποδος podos foot.
● ex “Water-hen called Ochropus” of Willughby 1676, “Gallinula ochropus major” of Ray 1713, “Porphyrio rufus” of Brisson 1760, “Smirring” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Yellow-legged Gallinule” of Latham 1785 (syn. Gallinula chloropus).
● ex “Yellowshanks” of Pennant 1785 (Tringa).
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)