Glossy-black Thrush

Here the details of the Glossy-black Thrush named bird below:

SCI Name:  Turdus serranus
Protonym:  Turdus serranus Arch.Naturgesch. 10 p.280
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae / Turdus
Taxonomy Code:  glbthr1
Type Locality:  Peru.
Author:  von Tschudi
Publish Year:  1844
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).

serrana / serranus
Portuguese serra  mountain range / Spanish sierra and cerro  mountain range  < L. serra  saw.
● Serra da Esperança, Paraná, Brazil (syn. Ara maracana).
● Cerro Famatina, La Rioja, Argentina (subsp. Asthenes modesta).
● Serra de Santa Helena, Sete Lagôas, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Formicivora).
● Sierra region of Acancocha, Junín, Peru (Geocerthia).
● Sierra and puna region of Junín, Peru (Larus).
● Sierra region, alt. 9,000-14,000ft., of Peru (Turdus).

SUBSPECIES

Glossy-black Thrush (cumanensis)
SCI Name: Turdus serranus cumanensis
cumanensis
● Cumaná, Sucre, north-eastern Venezuela (subsp. Grallaricula nana, Pipile, subsp. Thryophilus rufalbus, subsp. Turdus serranus, subsp. Zimmerius chrysops).
● Bay of Cuman (= Bahia do Cuma), Maranhão, Brazil (subsp. Diopsittaca nobilis).
● Erroneous TL Cumaná, Venezuela (= Trinidad) (syn. Pipile pipile).

Glossy-black Thrush (atrosericeus)
SCI Name: Turdus serranus atrosericeus
atrosericea / atrosericeus
L. ater, atra  black; Med. L. sericeus  silken  < Gr. σηρικος sērikos  silken  < σηρες Sēres  the people from whom silk was obtained, the Chinese.

Glossy-black Thrush (fuscobrunneus)
SCI Name: Turdus serranus fuscobrunneus
fuscobrunneus
L. fuscus  dusky; Mod. L. brunneus  brown  < Med. L. brunius  brown (cf. Mod. L. fuscobrunneus  dark brown).

Glossy-black Thrush (serranus)
SCI Name: Turdus serranus serranus
serrana / serranus
Portuguese serra  mountain range / Spanish sierra and cerro  mountain range  < L. serra  saw.
● Serra da Esperança, Paraná, Brazil (syn. Ara maracana).
● Cerro Famatina, La Rioja, Argentina (subsp. Asthenes modesta).
● Serra de Santa Helena, Sete Lagôas, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Formicivora).
● Sierra region of Acancocha, Junín, Peru (Geocerthia).
● Sierra and puna region of Junín, Peru (Larus).
● Sierra region, alt. 9,000-14,000ft., of Peru (Turdus).

Glossy-black Thrush (continoi)
SCI Name: Turdus serranus continoi
continoi
Francisco Contino (fl. 1970) Argentinian amateur ornithologist, bird illustrator (subsp. Turdus serranus).