Turdidae

Turdidae
Clades: Passeriformes; Australaves; Aves; Animals.

Genera
Neocossyphus: ant thrushes (2 species)
Stizorhina: rufous thrushes (2 species)
Geokichla: (21 species)
Zoothera: Asian thrushes (some 15 species, one recently extinct)
Ixoreus: varied thrush – related to other New World genera
Ridgwayia: Aztec thrush – related to Hylocichla
Cataponera: Sulawesi thrush
Grandala: grandala
Sialia: bluebirds (three species)
Myadestes: solitaires (10–11 living species, two or three recently extinct, includes formerly recognized genus Phaeornis)
Cichlopsis: rufous-brown solitaire – related to Catharus
Catharus: typical American thrushes and nightingale-thrushes (12 species)
Hylocichla: wood thrush
Entomodestes: solitaires (2 species) – related to Catharus
Turdus: true thrushes (some 84 species, one recently extinct)
Cochoa: cochoas (four species)
Chlamydochaera: fruithunter
Psophocichla: groundscraper thrush
The following genera have now been placed within Turdus:
Platycichla: (two species) – part of a South American group within Turdus
Nesocichla: Tristan thrush or starchy – part of a South American group within Turdus
Cichlherminia: forest thrush – genus paraphyletic with Turdus
Now usually considered a distinct family distantly related to Picathartes:

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