Banasura Laughingthrush
Banasura Laughingthrush
Here the details of the Banasura Laughingthrush named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Garrulax (?) Jerdoni J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 20 p.522
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Leiothrichidae / Montecincla
Taxonomy Code: bkclau1
Type Locality: southern India; type from Balasore Peak, ''a high hill at the edge of the Ghats separating Malabar from the Wynaad,'' fide Jerdon, 1863, Birds India, 2, p. 50.
Author: Blyth
Publish Year: 1851
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
Montecincla
(syn. Trochalopteron Ϯ Nilgiri Laughingthrush T. cachinnans) L. mons, montis mountain; Mod. L. cinclus thrush < Gr. κιγκλος kinklos small unidentified waterside bird; "Montecincla genus novum. ... Type species: C. [= Crateropus] cachinnaus [sic] Jerdon, 1839 ... We chose this appropriate moniker because the genus is confined to the higher mountains of the Western Ghats" (Robin et al. 2017).
jerdoni
Surgeon-Maj. Thomas Claverhill Jerdon (1811-1872) British Army in India 1836-1870, field ornithologist, collector (subsp. Anthus similis, Aviceda, subsp. Charadrius dubius, Chloropsis, subsp. Cyornis tickelliae, syn. Dryocopus javensis feddeni, subsp. Lonchura kelaarti (ex Amadina pectoralis Blyth ex Jerdon MS, 1844), syn. Machlolophus xanthogenys aplonotus, subsp. Minla ignotincta, syn. Otus bakkamoena, syn. Phaenicophaeus viridirostris (ex Xanclostomus viridirostris Jerdon, 1840), subsp. Phylloscopus xanthoschistos, syn. Prinia sylvatica, subsp. Prunella strophiata, syn. Rimator malacoptilus, Saxicola, syn. Sterna acuticauda, subsp. Sylvia crassirostris, syn. Timalia pileata bengalensis, syn. Timalia pileata intermedia, syn. Treron phoenicopterus chlorigaster, Trochalopteron).
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)