Sclater's nightingale-thrush

Sclater's nightingale-thrush (Catharus maculatus) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae native to South America.

Sclater's nightingale-thrush
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Turdidae
Genus: Catharus
Species:
C. maculatus
Binomial name
Catharus maculatus
Synonyms

Catharus dryas maculatus

Taxonomy

It was first described in 1858 by Philip Sclater as Malacocichla maculatus.[1] In 1879 it was subsumed as a subspecies of the spotted nightingale-thrush, as Cantharus dryas maculatus. In 2017, it was argued based on phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA, morphometric and vocal data analyses, and modeling of ecological niches, that it should again be considered a separate species.[1][2] The former "spotted nightingale-thrush" (Catharus dryas sensu lato) was split into Sclater's nightingale-thrush (C. maculatus) and Gould's nightingale-thrush (C. dryas sensu stricto).

References
  1. Halley, M.R.; Klicka, J.C.; Clee, P.R.S.; Weckstein, J.D. (2017). "Restoring the species status of Catharus maculatus (Aves: Turdidae), a secretive Andean thrush, with a critique of the yardstick approach to species delimitation". Zootaxa. 4376 (3): 387–404. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4276.3.4.
  2. Gill, F.; Donsker, D., eds. (2018). "IOC World Bird List (v8.2)". doi:10.14344/IOC.ML.8.2. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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