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Cinclosoma
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A quail-thrush is a bird of the genus Cinclosoma, which contains eight species. Quail-thrushes are in a different family from either quails or thrushes, but bear some superficial resemblance to them. The genus is found in Australia and New Guinea in a variety of habitats ranging from rainforest to deserts.
Species
Spotted Quailthrush
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyPsophodidae
Cinclosoma is een geslacht van zangvogels uit de familie zwiepfluiters.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 18
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Psophodidae
- Collections
- ANWC, WAM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Australia, Papua New Guinea, Nepal
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A quail-thrush is a bird of the genus Cinclosoma, which contains eight species. Quail-thrushes are in a different family from either quails or thrushes, but bear some superficial resemblance to them. The genus is found in Australia and New Guinea in a variety of habitats ranging from rainforest to deserts.
==Taxonomy== The genus Cinclosoma was introduced in 1827 by the naturalists Nicholas Vigors and Thomas Horsfield to accommodate a single species, Turdus punctatus Latham 1801, which becomes the type species by monotypy This is a junior synonym of Turdus punctatus Shaw, 1794, the spotted quail-thrush. The genus name combines the Modern Latin cinclus meaning "thrush" with the Ancient Greek κιγκλος/kinklos, an unidentified tail-wagging waterside bird.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cinclosoma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.