NATURAL HISTORY · CATALOGUE RECORD
Long-billed Thrush
Zoothera monticola Vigors, 1832
Source-backed taxonomic record
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
The long-billed thrush (Zoothera monticola) is a species of bird in the family Turdidae. It is found from the Himalayas to Myanmar and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Wikipedia contributors, Long-billed thrush; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T07:14:20.867825+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Zoothera monticola Vigors, 1832
- Name authority
- Vigors, 1832
- Common name
- Long-billed Thrush
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Turdidae
- Genus
- Zoothera
- Extinction status
- Recorded extant
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- megaclassTetrapoda
- classAves
- orderPasseriformes
- familyTurdidae Rafinesque, 1815
- genusZoothera Vigors, 1832
- speciesZoothera monticola Vigors, 1832
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Zoothera. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| White's ThrushZoothera aurea (Holandre, 1825) | TurdidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Scaly ThrushZoothera dauma (Latham, 1790) | TurdidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Long-tailed ThrushZoothera dixoni (Seebohm, 1881) | TurdidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Russet-tailed ThrushZoothera heinei (Cabanis, 1851) | TurdidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sri Lanka ThrushZoothera imbricata E. L. Layard, 1854 | TurdidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bassian ThrushZoothera lunulata (Latham, 1801) | TurdidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dark-sided ThrushZoothera marginata Blyth, 1847 | TurdidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bonin ThrushZoothera terrestris (Kittlitz, 1830) | TurdidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
| Sichuan ThrushZoothera griseiceps (Delacour, 1930) | TurdidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| GeomaliaZoothera heinrichi (Stresemann, 1931) | TurdidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Himalayan ThrushZoothera salimalii Alström, Rasmussen, J. Zhao, J. Xu, Dalvi, T. Cai, Y. Guan, R. Zhang, Kalyakin et al., 2016 | TurdidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Sunda ThrushZoothera andromedae (Temminck, 1826) | TurdidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Documented distribution
Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Vigors, & Nicholas Aylward. (1832). December 27, 1831. Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. 1, No. 14. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:5D7P7. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.