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Chestnut Quail-thrush

Cinclosoma castanotumGould, J, 1840

English (US) Chestnut Quail-thrush

The Chestnut Quail-thrush (Cinclosoma castanotum) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Cinclosomatidae (Jewel-babblers and Quail-thrushes) in the order Passeriformes.

Range: southeastern Australia (Yorke Peninsula, southern Flinders Ranges, eastern Mount Lofty Range, northwestern Victoria, and southwestern New South Wales, central New South Wales)Range summary from AviList, in English.

Scientific name
Cinclosoma castanotum
IUCN Red List
Not Evaluated
English (US)
Chestnut Quail-thrush
Described by
Gould, J, 1840

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Taxonomic history

First described as
[Cinclosoma] castanotus
Described by
Gould, J, 1840
Type locality
Australia; type from the Belts of the Murray, South Australia, fide Gould, 1841, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 8 (1840), p. 113.
Original description
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History including Zoology, Botany, and Geology ser.1, vol.5, no.29 p.117

Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.

See all 12 species of the family Cinclosomatidae