Chinese Thrush

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Chinese Thrush
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Turdidae
Genus: Turdus
Species: T. mupinensis
Binomial name
Turdus mupinensis
Laubmann, 1920

The Chinese Thrush (Turdus mupinensis) is a species of bird in the Turdidae family. It is found in China and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montanes.

A recent molecular study places the Chinese Thrush's closest relatives as the similarly plumaged European species, the Song Thrush (T. philomelos) and the Mistle Thrush (T. viscivorus), all three species early offshoots from the main Turdus radiation around the world.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Voelker G, Rohwer S, Bowie RCK, Outlaw DC (2007). "Molecular systematics of a speciose,cosmopolitan songbird genus: Defining the limits of,and relationships among,the Turdus thrushes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42: 422–34. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.07.016. 
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