Ashambu Laughingthrush
Montecincla meridionalis(Blanford, WT, 1880)
English (US) Ashambu Laughingthrush
The Ashambu Laughingthrush (Montecincla meridionalis) 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 Leiothrichidae (Laughingthrushes and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: hill forest of southwestern India (southern Kerala)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Montecincla meridionalis
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Ashambu Laughingthrush
- Described by
- (Blanford, WT, 1880)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Trochalopterum meridionale
- Described by
- (Blanford, WT, 1880)
- Type locality
- southern Kerala ; type specimen from the Tirunelveli boundary, fide Sharpe, 1883, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 7, p. 375.
- Original description
- Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 49, pt.2, no.3 p.142-144
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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