Ethiopian thrush

Ethiopian thrush
In Gondar, Ethiopia
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Turdidae
Genus:	Turdus
Species:	T. simensis
Binomial name
Turdus simensis (Rüppell, 1837)

The Ethiopian thrush (Turdus simensis) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is found in Eritrea and Ethiopia.

Taxonomy

The Ethiopian thrush was formally described in 1837 by the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell from a specimen collected in northern Ethiopia. He used the scientific name Merula (Turdus) simensis.^[2][3] The specific epithet is from the type locality, the Simien Mountains.^[4]

This thrush has sometimes been considered as a subspecies of the groundscraper thrush (Turdus litsitsirupa).^[5][6]

References

1. BirdLife International (2016). "Psophocichla simensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T103887388A104197829.
2. Rüppell, Eduard (1835). Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien gehörig (in German). Vol. Vögel. Frankfurt am Main: S. Schmerber. p. 81, Plate 29, Fig. 1. The volume is dated 1835 on the title page but it was published in sections and the section containing page 81 was published in 1837. See: Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5.
3. Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 185.
4. Jobling, James A. "simensis". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Thrushes". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
6. Kirwan, R.B.; Collar, N.; del Hoyo, J.; Boesman, P.F.D. (2022). Keeney, B.K. (ed.). "Ethiopian Thrush (Turdus simensis), version 1.0". Birds of the World. Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell Lab of Ornithology. doi:10.2173/bow.grothr2.01.