Speckled nightingale-thrush


The speckled nightingale-thrush or Sclater's nightingale-thrush is a species of bird in the thrush family Turdidae native to South America.

Taxonomy

The speckled nightingale-thrush was first described in 1858 by Philip Sclater as Malacocichla maculatus. In 1879 it was subsumed as a subspecies of the spotted nightingale-thrush, as Cantharus dryas maculatus. In 2017, it was argued based on phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial DNA, morphometric and vocal data analyses, and modeling of ecological niches, that it should again be considered a separate species. The former "spotted nightingale-thrush" was split into the speckled nightingale-thrush and the yellow-throated nightingale-thrush.