Brahminy starling | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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Species of bird

The brahminy starling or brahminy myna (Sturnia pagodarum) is a member of the starling family of birds. It is usually seen in pairs or small flocks in open habitats on the plains of the Indian subcontinent.

The brahminy starling was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeuss Systema Naturae. He placed it with the thrushes in the genus Turdus and coined the binomial name Turdus pagodarum.[2] The specific epithet pagodarum is Modern Latin meaning "of the temples" or "of the pagodas".[3] Gmelin based his account on the "Le Martin Brame" that had been described in 1782 by the French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat in his book Voyage aux Indes orientales et à la Chine. Sonnerat mentioned that the bird was found on the Malabar and Coromandel Coasts of India.[4]

The brahminy starling was formerly placed in the genus Sturnus. A molecular phylogenetic study published in 200...