Song Thrush

SCI Name:  Turdus philomelos
Protonym:  Turdus philomelos Handb.Naturgesch.Vog.Deutschl. p.382
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae / Turdus
Taxonomy Code:  sonthr1
Type Locality:  wanders in April and October through central Germany.
Author:  Brehm, CL
Publish Year:  1831
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).

philomelos
L. philomela nightingale (Gr. myth Philomela, daughter of Pandion, king of Athens, was violated by her brother-in-law Tereus and changed into a nightingale) (Turdus).

SUBSPECIES

Song Thrush (hebridensis)
SCI Name: Turdus philomelos hebridensis
hebridalis / hebridensis / hebridicus / hebridium
Inner and Outer Hebrides, an archipelago off the western coast of Scotland.

Song Thrush (clarkei)
SCI Name: Turdus philomelos clarkei
clarkei
● Col. Stephenson Robert Clarke (1862-1948) British Army, naturalist, traveller, big-game hunter, sponsored plant-hunting expeditions (subsp. Amandava subflava, subsp. Ithaginis cruentus, syn. Turdoides leucopygia lacuum).
● William Eagle Clarke (1853-1938) British civil engineer, ornithologist, Curator of Leeds Mus. 1884-1887, Keeper of Natural History Dept., Royal Scottish Mus. 1909-1921 (syn. Catharacta antarctica loennbergi, subsp. Turdus philomelos).

Song Thrush (philomelos)
SCI Name: Turdus philomelos philomelos
philomelos
L. philomela nightingale (Gr. myth Philomela, daughter of Pandion, king of Athens, was violated by her brother-in-law Tereus and changed into a nightingale) (Turdus).

Song Thrush (nataliae)
SCI Name: Turdus philomelos nataliae
nataliae
● Caroline Natalie Rosalie Kaup (b. 1835) daughter of German systematist Johann J. Kaup (subsp. Sphyrapicus thyroideus).
● Female eponym; dedicatee not yet identified (S. A. Buturlin 1929, Sistematicheskiye zametki o ptitsakh Severnogo Kavkaza, 15) (subsp. Turdus philomelos).