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White-chinned thrush, the Glossary

The white-chinned thrush, known in Jamaica as the hopping dick (Turdus aurantius) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae.^[1]

23 relations: Binomial nomenclature, Carl Linnaeus, Forest, Genus, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Habitat, Hans Sloane, Jamaica, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, John Latham (ornithologist), John Ray, Latin, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Monotypic taxon, Montane ecosystems, Neo-Latin, Species, Species description, Subspecies, Systema Naturae, Thrush (bird), True thrush, White-eyed thrush.
Birds of Jamaica

Binomial nomenclature

In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Forest

A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist.

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Habitat

In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species.

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Hans Sloane

Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist, and collector.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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Johann Friedrich Gmelin

Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.

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John Latham (ornithologist)

John Latham (27 June 1740 – 4 February 1837) was an English physician, naturalist and author.

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John Ray

John Ray FRS (29 November 1627 – 17 January 1705) was a Christian English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Mathurin Jacques Brisson

Mathurin Jacques Brisson (30 April 1723 – 23 June 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosopher.

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Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

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Montane ecosystems

Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains.

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Neo-Latin

Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin in; others, throughout.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Species description

A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Systema Naturae

(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.

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Thrush (bird)

The thrushes are a passerine bird family, Turdidae, with a worldwide distribution.

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True thrush

True thrushes are medium-sized mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Turdus of the wider thrush family, Turdidae. White-chinned thrush and True thrush are Turdus.

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White-eyed thrush

The white-eyed thrush (Turdus jamaicensis) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae that is endemic to Jamaica. White-chinned thrush and white-eyed thrush are birds described in 1789, birds of Jamaica, taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Turdidae stubs and Turdus.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-chinned_thrush

Also known as Hopping Dick, Turdus aurantius.