Asian thrush
| Asian thrushes | |
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| White's thrush (Zoothera aurea) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Turdidae |
| Genus: | Zoothera Vigors, 1832 |
| Species | |
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21, see text | |
The Asian thrushes are medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Zoothera of the thrush family, Turdidae.
Taxonomy[edit]
The genus Zoothera was introduced in 1832 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Vigors to accommodate a newly described species, Zoothera monticol, the long-billed thrush, which therefore becomes the type species.[1][2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek zōon meaning "animal" with -thēra meaning "hunter".[3]
Two New World species traditionally regarded as Zoothera (varied thrush and Aztec thrush) actually belong elsewhere in the thrush family. A group containing Siberian thrush and the African species is not closely related to the other Zoothera and are now assigned to the genus Geokichla.
Species[edit]
The genus contains the following 21 species:[4]
- Long-tailed thrush (Zoothera dixoni)
- Alpine thrush (Zoothera mollissima)
- Himalayan thrush (Zoothera salimalii)
- Sichuan thrush (Zoothera griseiceps)
- Long-billed thrush (Zoothera monticola)
- Geomalia (Zoothera heinrichi)
- Dark-sided thrush (Zoothera marginata)
- Everett's thrush (Zoothera everetti)
- Sunda thrush (Zoothera andromedae)
- White's thrush (Zoothera aurea)
- Scaly thrush (Zoothera dauma)
- Nilgiri thrush (Zoothera neilgherriensis)
- Sri Lanka thrush (Zoothera imbricata)
- Amami thrush (Zoothera major)
- †Bonin thrush (Zoothera terrestris) - extinct (c. 1830s)
- Guadalcanal thrush (Zoothera turipavae)
- Makira thrush (Zoothera margaretae)
- Russet-tailed thrush (Zoothera heinei)
- Fawn-breasted thrush (Zoothera machiki)
- Bassian thrush (Zoothera lunulata)
- Black-backed thrush (Zoothera talaseae)
Traditional Zoothera species belonging elsewhere in family[edit]
- Varied thrush (Ixoreus naevius) - related to other new world genera
- Aztec thrush (Ridgwayia pinicola) - related to Hylocichla
Geokichla thrushes
- Siberian thrush, Geokichla sibirica
- Pied thrush, Geokichla wardii
- Grey ground thrush, Geokichla princei
- Black-eared ground thrush, Geokichla camaronensis
- Spotted ground thrush, Geokichla guttata - formerly G. fischeri
- Spot-winged thrush, Geokichla spiloptera
- Crossley's ground thrush, Geokichla crossleyi
- Abyssinian ground thrush, Geokichla piaggiae
- Kivu ground thrush, Geokichla piaggiae tanganjicae
- Oberländer's ground thrush, Geokichla oberlaenderi
- Orange ground thrush, Geokichla gurneyi
- Orange-headed thrush, Geokichla citrina
- Buru thrush, Geokichla dumasi
- Seram thrush, Geokichla joiceyi
- Orange-sided thrush, Geokichla peronii
- Slaty-backed thrush, Geokichla schistacea
- Chestnut-capped thrush, Geokichla interpres
- Enggano thrush, Geokichla leucolaema
- Chestnut-backed thrush, Geokichla dohertyi
- Ashy thrush, Geokichla cinerea
- Red-backed thrush, Geokichla erythronota
- Red-and-black thrush, Geokichla mendeni
References[edit]
- ^ Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1832). "Zoothera". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 172.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 144.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 414. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2023). "Thrushes". IOC World Bird List Version 13.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
Further reading[edit]
- Klicka, J., G. Voelker, and G.M. Spellman. 2005.A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the ‘‘true thrushes’’ (Aves: Turdinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34: 486–500.
- Sangster, G., J.M. Collinson, P.-A. Crochet, A.G. Knox, D.T. Parkin, L. Svensson, and S.C. Votier. 2011. Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: seventh report. Ibis 153: 883–892.
- Voelker, G., and J. Klicka. 2008. Systematics of Zoothera thrushes, and a synthesis of true thrush molecular systematic relationships. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 377–381.
- Voelke, G., and R.K. Outlaw. 2008. Establishing a perimeter position: speciation around the Indian Ocean Basin. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 1779–1788.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zoothera.
- Asian thrush videos on the Internet Bird Collection