Sclater's nightingale-thrush
Sclater's nightingale-thrush is a species of bird in the family Turdidae native to South America.Taxonomy
It 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 Sclater's nightingale-thrush and Gould's nightingale-thrush.
