Pantepui thrush
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| taxon = Turdus murinus
| authority = Salvin, 1885{{cite journal|last=Salvin|first=O.|author-link=Osbert Salvin|year=1885|title=A List of Birds obtained by Mr. Henry Whitely in British Guiana|issn=0019-1019|journal=The Ibis|volume=5(3) |issue=10 |pages=195-219 |language=en |doi=10.1111/j.1474-919x.1885.tb06246.x |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8615251 |via=Biodiversitas Heritage Library}}
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The Pantepui thrush (Turdus murinus) is a bird in the genus Turdus native to the tepuis of northern South America. It was previously considered conspecific with the black-billed thrush, but genetic data indicates that the two are not closely related.{{cite web|editor1-last=Gill|editor1-first=Frank|editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist)|editor2-last=Donsker|editor2-first=David|year=2019|title=Thrushes|work=World Bird List Version 9.2 |url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/thrushes/|publisher=International Ornithologists' Union|accessdate=29 June 2019}}{{cite web|title=Recognize Turdus murinus and T. arthuri as species distinct from T. ignobilis |url=https://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCprop814.htm |date=March 2019 |first=F. Gary |last=Stiles |website=Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science}}
Distribution and habitat
The species occurs in the foothills of southern Guyana, Venezuela, and northern Brazil. It inhabits a variety of habitats including clearings, savannas with gallery woodland, cerrado, humid forest borders, coffee plantations, and various other habitats under anthropogenic influence. It has been observed to prefer habitats at the borders of tropical moist forests.{{cite web|last1=Greeney |first1=H.F. |last2=Collar |first2=N. |last3=Bonan |first3=A. |last4=Kirwan |first4=G.M.|year=2020|title=Pantepui Thrush (Turdus murinus), version 1.0.|url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/bkbthr4/1.0/introduction |doi=10.2173/bow.bkbthr4.01|editor-last1=Billerman |editor-first1=S.M. |editor-last2=Keeney |editor-first2=B.K. |editor-last3= Rodewald |editor-first3=P.G. |editor-last4=Schulenberg |editor-first4=T.S.|website=Birds of the World|publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA|language=en|access-date=25 February 2024}}
Systematics
=First description=
The species T. murinus was first described by British zoologist Osbert Salvin in 1885. Its type locality is Merumé, Mount Roraima, Guyana at {{convert|3500-5000|feet|metres|order=flip}}.{{cite web|title=Pantepui Thrush Turdus murinus |url=https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=6E6DD03A568D45A0|access-date=25 February 2024 |website=Avibase }}
=Etymology=
The generic name Turdus is derived from Latin, meaning "thrush", and the species name murinus comes from the Latin term for "mouse-grey".{{cite book|last=Jobling|first=J.A.|author-link=James A. Jobling|year=2010|at=Turdus p. 393; murinus p. 262|title=Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names |language=en |publisher=Londres |isbn=9781408133262 |url=https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling }}
=Taxonomy=
Turdus murinus and Turdus arthuri were originally considered subspecies of Turdus ignobilis, until the two species were determined to have significant genetic distance from T. ignobilis through studies in molecular phylogenetics concluded in the 2010s.{{cite journal|last1=Cerqueira |first1=P.V. |last2=Dantas Santos |first2=M.P. |last3=Aleixo |first3=A.|year=2016|title=Phylogeography, inter-specific limits and diversification of Turdus ignobilis|issn=1055-7903|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=97: 177-186|language=en|url=|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2016.01.005}}{{cite journal|last1=Avendaño |first1= J.E.|last2=Arbeláez-Cortés|first2=E.|last3=Cadena |first3=C.D.|year=2017|title=On the importance of adequate geographic and taxonomic sampling in phylogeography: a reevaluation of diversification in a Neotropical thrush|issn=1055-7903|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|volume=111 |pages=87–97|language=en|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790316302986 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2017.03.020}} Formal recognition of a separation of the species was made by the American Ornithological Society in 2019.
References
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External links
- Videos, photos and sounds of [https://ebird.org/species/bkbthr4/ Turdus murinus] on eBird.
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