Species of Thailand
Large woodshrike
Tephrodornis virgatus
Coenraad Jacob Temminck, 1824
In Thai: นกเฉี่ยวดงหางสีน้ำตาล
The large woodshrike (Tephrodornis virgatus) is found in south-eastern Asia, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. Its natural habitats are temperate forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical mangrove forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Taxonomy and systematics
It is usually placed in the family Vangidae. The Malabar woodshrike is sometimes considered conspecific with the large woodshrike.
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Category / Seasonal Status
BCST Category: Recorded in an apparently wild state within the last 50 years
BCST Seasonal status: Resident or presumed resident
Scientific classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Vangidae
- Genus
- Tephrodornis
- Species
- Tephrodornis virgatus
Common names
- Thai: นกเฉี่ยวดงหางสีน้ำตาล
Subspecies
Tephrodornis virgatus annectens, Herbert Christopher Robinson & Cecil Boden Kloss, 1918
Range: Northern Thai-Malay Peninsula
Tephrodornis virgatus frenatus, Johann Büttikofer, 1887
Range: Borneo
Tephrodornis virgatus fretensis, Herbert Christopher Robinson & Cecil Boden Kloss, 1920
Range: Southern Thai-Malay Peninsula and Sumatra
Tephrodornis virgatus hainanus, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, 1910
Range: North Indochina and Hainan (South China)
Tephrodornis virgatus jugans, Herbert Girton Deignan, 1948
Range: South Myanmar and North Thailand
Tephrodornis virgatus latouchei, Norman Boyd Kinnear, 1925
Range: S/E China (Fujian)
Tephrodornis virgatus mekongensis, Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, 1946
Range: East and South Thailand, Cambodia and South Indochina
Tephrodornis virgatus pelvicus, Brian Houghton Hodgson, 1837
Range: East Himalayas (Nepal to Assam) to North Myanmar
Tephrodornis virgatus verney, Norman Boyd Kinnear, 1924
Range: S/W Thailand
Tephrodornis virgatus virgatus, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, 1824
Range: Coastal S/W and extreme south Sumatra and Java
Synonyms
- Tephrodornis virgatus, Temminck (1824)
- Tephrodornis gularis, Thomas Stamford Raffles (1822)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN3.1)
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