Comoro Thrush

SCI Name:  Turdus bewsheri
Protonym:  Turdus bewsheri Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.299 pl.34
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Turdidae / Turdus
Taxonomy Code:  comthr1
Type Locality:  Anjouan Island.
Author:  Newton, E
Publish Year:  1877
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).

bewsheri
Charles E. Bewsher (fl. 1876) British banker, collector-naturalist based on Mauritius (Turdus).

SUBSPECIES

Comoro Thrush (comorensis)
SCI Name: Turdus bewsheri comorensis
comorensis / comoroensis
Comoro Is., Indian Ocean (Arabic Jazā'ir al-Qamar Islands of the Moon).

Comoro Thrush (moheliensis)
SCI Name: Turdus bewsheri moheliensis
mohelica / mohelicus / moheliensis
Mohéli, Comoro Is.

Comoro Thrush (bewsheri)
SCI Name: Turdus bewsheri bewsheri
bewsheri
Charles E. Bewsher (fl. 1876) British banker, collector-naturalist based on Mauritius (Turdus).