Turdus Swalesi Bird

Turdus Swalesi Bird

Turdus Swalesi Bird

English Name:  La Selle Thrush
Latin Name:  Turdus swalesi
Protonym:  Haplocichla swalesi Proc.Biol.Soc.Wash. 40 p.55
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae / Turdus
Taxonomy Code:  lasthr1
Type Locality:  Massif de la Selle, 6,000 ft.
Author:  Wetmore
Publish Year:  1927
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

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. TurusTrudus, 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).

swalesi
Bradshaw Hall Swales (1875-1928) US lawyer, ornithologist, anthropologist (Turdus).

SUBSPECIES

La Selle Thrush (dodae)
Latin Name: Turdus swalesi dodae
dodae
Annabelle Jean Stockton Dod née Tudy (1913-1997) US missionary, educationalist in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, ornithologist (subsp. Turdus swalesi).

La Selle Thrush (swalesi)
Latin Name: Turdus swalesi swalesi
swalesi
Bradshaw Hall Swales (1875-1928) US lawyer, ornithologist, anthropologist (Turdus).