Trochalopteron

Trochalopteron is a genus of passerine birds in the family Leiothrichidae.[1]

Trochalopteron
Streaked laughingthrush (Trochalopteron lineatum)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Leiothrichidae
Genus: Trochalopteron
Blyth, 1843
Type species
Trochalopteron subunicolor
Species

See text

Species

It contains the following 19 species:[2]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Brown-capped laughingthrushTrochalopteron austeniPatkai range, India
Scaly laughingthrushTrochalopteron subunicolorBhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam.
Streaked laughingthrushTrochalopteron lineatumAfghanistan, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, and Tajikistan.
Striped laughingthrushTrochalopteron virgatumPatkai range, India
Blue-winged laughingthrushTrochalopteron squamatusEastern Himalaya, Yunnan, Myanmar and Laos
Variegated laughingthrushTrochalopteron variegatumBhutan, India, Nepal and Tibet.
Black-faced laughingthrushTrochalopteron affineeastern Nepal eastwards to Arunachal Pradesh in India and further to Myanmar, along with Bhutan and southeastern Tibet.
Elliot's laughingthrushTrochalopteron elliotiicentral China and far northeastern India.
Brown-cheeked laughingthrushTrochalopteron henricisouthwestern China and northeastern India
White-whiskered laughingthrushTrochalopteron morrisonianumTaiwan.
Chestnut-crowned laughingthrushTrochalopteron erythrocephalumBhutan, China, India, and Nepal.
Collared laughingthrushTrochalopteron yersiniVietnam.
Red-tailed laughingthrushTrochalopteron milneiChina, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Red-winged laughingthrushTrochalopteron formosumChina (Sichuan, Yunnan and Guangxi provinces) and north-west Vietnam.
Bhutan laughingthrushTrochalopteron imbricatumBhutan and some adjoining areas in India.
Assam laughingthrushTrochalopteron chrysopterumNortheast India and adjacent southwest China and Myanmar.
Silver-eared laughingthrushTrochalopteron melanostigmasouthern Yunnan, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
Golden-winged laughingthrushTrochalopteron ngoclinhenseVietnam.
Malayan laughingthrushTrochalopteron peninsulaesouthern Thailand and peninsular Malaysia.

Former species

Two species that were formerly included in this genus have been moved to Montecincla based on phylogenetic studies that showed them to be more distantly related to the Trochalopteron clade than to a clade formed by species in the genera Leiothrix, Actinodura, Minla, Crocias and Heterophasia.[3]

  • Black-chinned laughingthrush, Montecincla cachinnans (with jerdoni separated as a full species)
  • Kerala laughingthrush, Montecincla fairbanki

References
  1. Collar, N. J. & Robson C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
  2. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Laughingthrushes and allies". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  3. Robin, V.V.; Vishnudas, C.K.; Gupta, P.; Rheindt, F.E.; Hooper, D.M.; Ramakrishnan, U.; Reddy, S. (2017). "Two new genera of songbirds represent endemic radiations from the Shola Sky Islands of the Western Ghats, India". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (31): 1–14. doi:10.1186/s12862-017-0882-6.
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