NATURAL HISTORY · CATALOGUE RECORD
Bonin Thrush
Zoothera terrestris (Kittlitz, 1830)
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 Bonin thrush (Zoothera terrestris), also known as Kittlitz's thrush or the Bonin Islands thrush, is an extinct species of Asian thrush. It is sometimes separated as the only species of the genus Cichlopasser. The only place where this bird was found was Chichi-jima in the Ogasawara Islands; it might conceivably have inhabited Anijima and Otōtojima, but this has not been borne out by observations or specimens. The species was only once observed by a naturalist, its discoverer Heinrich von Kittlitz. He encountered the thrush in the coastal woods where it usually kept to the ground; it may have been ground-nesting. The only specimens ever taken are in the Naturalis in Leiden (1), the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna (1), the Senckenbergmuseum in Frankfurt (1) and in the Zoological Museum, St. Petersburg (2).
Wikipedia contributors, Bonin thrush; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T02:20:39.486667+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Zoothera terrestris (Kittlitz, 1830)
- Name authority
- (Kittlitz, 1830)
- Common name
- Bonin Thrush
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Turdidae
- Genus
- Zoothera
- Extinction status
- Recorded extinct
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 terrestris (Kittlitz, 1830)
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 |
| 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 |
| Everett's ThrushZoothera everetti (Sharpe, 1892) | TurdidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Turdus terrestris Kittlitz, 1830 Kittlitz, 1830 | synonym |
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.
- https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=563815 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:5D7PL. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.