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Zoothera heinrichi

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The geomalia or Sulawesi mountain thrush (Zoothera heinrichi) is a rare member of the thrush family endemic to Sulawesi in Indonesia. It is sometimes classified as Geomalia heinrichi, in which case it is monotypic in the genus Geomalia (which is the source of its primary common name).

Species

Least Concern

Geomalia

SPECIES

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderPasseriformes
  5. FamilyTurdidae
Observations32
Observations recorded283

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Zoothera
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taxon name
Zoothera heinrichi
taxon rank
species
taxon common name
tordo-castanho-da-celebes
IUCN conservation status
Least Concern
Commons category
Zoothera heinrichi
short name
Z. heinrichi
endemic to
Indonesia
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The geomalia or Sulawesi mountain thrush (Zoothera heinrichi) is a rare member of the thrush family endemic to Sulawesi in Indonesia. It is sometimes classified as Geomalia heinrichi, in which case it is monotypic in the genus Geomalia (which is the source of its primary common name).

The coloration of the bird is primarily dark brown with chestnut color on the breast. The long legs, long tail and short wings struck the discoverer as reminiscent of laughingthrushes, and the name Geomalia is itself a reference to another, superficially similar Sulawesi endemic, the malia, but the two species are not related. The specific name commemorates its discoverer, the German explorer Gerd Heinrich.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zoothera heinrichi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.