Thrush genera are the genera of the passerine family Turdidae, which Animal Diversity Web labels thrushes and lists with 24 genera. In the GBIF backbone, Turdus dominates the family with about 394 descendant taxa, followed by Catharus with about 94, Geokichla with about 69, Zoothera with about 45, Myadestes with about 43 and Sialia with about 22, then Pseudalethe, Neocossyphus, Cichlopsis and Alethe.
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Animal Diversity Web: Turdidae
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Family Turdidae (thrushes)
GBIF Secretariat: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, children of Turdidae
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"canonicalName":"Turdus","vernacularName":"true thrush","authorship":"Linnaeus, 1758","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ","numDescendants":394
Children of Turdidae: Catharus
"canonicalName":"Catharus","vernacularName":"American Brown Thrushes and Nightingale-Thrushes","authorship":"Bonaparte, 1850","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Consp. Gen. Av. 1 p. 278","numDescendants":94
Children of Turdidae: Geokichla
"canonicalName":"Geokichla","vernacularName":"Ground Thrushes and Allies","authorship":"S.Muller, 1836","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Müller, Salomon. 1835. Aanteekeningen over de natuurlijke gesteldheid van een gedeelte der westkust en binnenlanden van Sumatra; met bijvoeging van eenige waarnemingen en beschrijvingen van verscheidene, op dit, en andere Sunda - eilanden voorkomende dieren. Tijdschrift voor natuurlijke geschiedenis en physiologie 2: 315-355; Pls. 5-9.","numDescendants":69
Children of Turdidae: Zoothera
"canonicalName":"Zoothera","authorship":"Vigors, 1832","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"PZS Pt 1 no. 14 p. 172","numDescendants":45
Children of Turdidae: Myadestes
"canonicalName":"Myadestes","vernacularName":"Hawaiian Thrushes","authorship":"Swainson, 1838","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Flycatchers (Nat. Libr., 21), 132 (as Myidestes p. 134).","numDescendants":43
Children of Turdidae: Sialia
"canonicalName":"Sialia","vernacularName":"bluebird","authorship":"Swainson, 1827","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Swainson, William. 1827. A synopsis of the birds discovered in Mexico by W. Bullock, F.L.S. and H.S., and Mr. William Bullock, jun. The Philosophical Magazine 2nd ser.:v.1(5): 364-369.","numDescendants":22
Children of Turdidae: Pseudalethe
"canonicalName":"Pseudalethe","authorship":"Beresford, 2003","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","numDescendants":18
Children of Turdidae: Neocossyphus
"canonicalName":"Neocossyphus","vernacularName":"ant thrushes","authorship":"Fischer & Reichenow, 1884","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"J. Orn., 32","numDescendants":12
Children of Turdidae: Cichlopsis
"canonicalName":"Cichlopsis","authorship":"Cabanis, 1850","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Mus. Heineanum, 1, 1850","numDescendants":9
Children of Turdidae: Alethe
"canonicalName":"Alethe","vernacularName":"True Alethes","authorship":"Cassin, 1859","nameType":"SCIENTIFIC","rank":"GENUS","origin":"SOURCE","taxonomicStatus":"ACCEPTED","nomenclaturalStatus":[],"remarks":"","publishedIn":"Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1859","numDescendants":8
View the Source Wikipedia: Catharus
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The genus Catharus is an evolutionary clade of forest-dwelling passerine birds in the family Turdidae (thrushes), commonly known as nightingale-thrushes.
Wikipedia: Myadestes
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Myadestes is a genus of solitaires, medium-sized mostly insectivorous birds in the thrush family, Turdidae.
Wikipedia: Asian thrush
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The Asian thrushes are medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Zoothera of the thrush family, Turdidae.
Wikipedia: Turdus
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Turdus is a genus of medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the wider thrush family, Turdidae.
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