Usambara Thrush / Turdus roehli
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Usambara Thrush
SCI Name:
Protonym: Turdus roehli Orn.Monatsb. 13 p. 182
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Turdidae / Turdus
Taxonomy Code: usathr1
Type Locality: Mlalo, near Lushota, Usambara Mountains.
Author: Reichenow
Publish Year: 1905
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
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).
roehli
● Pastor Dr Karl Roehl (1870-1951) German missionary to German East Africa 1904-1907 (subsp. Apus barbatus, subsp. Arizelocichla masukuensis, syn. Bradypterus lopesi usambarae, syn. Muscicapa adusta minima, Turdus).
● Dr Eduardo Röhl (1891-1959) Venezuelan astronomer, Director of Astronomical Observatory, Caracas (subsp. Picumnus squamulatus).
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)
