Trochalopteron

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Trochalopteron
Streaked Laughingthrush I IMG 3892.jpg
Streaked laughingthrush (Trochalopteron lineatum)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Leiothrichidae
Genus: Trochalopteron
Blyth, 1843
Type species
Trochalopteron subunicolor (scaly laughingthrush)
Blyth, 1843
Species

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Trochalopteron is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae.

Taxonomy[]

The genus Trochalopteron was introduced in 1843 by the English zoologist Edward Blyth.[1] The name combines the Ancient Greek trokhalos meaning "round" or "bowed" with pteron meaning "wing".[2] The type species was designated in 1930 by E. C. Stuart Baker as the scaly laughingthrush.[3][4]

Species[]

The genus contains the following 19 species:[5]

Image Common Name Scientific name Distribution
Brown-capped Laughingthrush (Trochalopteron austeni). It is found in India and Myanmar. (34587626122).jpg Brown-capped laughingthrush Trochalopteron austeni Patkai range, India
Scaly Laughingthrush.jpg Scaly laughingthrush Trochalopteron subunicolor Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam.
Streaked Laughingthrush (48609787058).jpg Streaked laughingthrush Trochalopteron lineatum Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, and Tajikistan.
Striped Laughingthrush from Khonoma Nagaland.jpg Striped laughingthrush Trochalopteron virgatum Patkai range, India
Blue-winged Laughingthrush Pangolakha Sikkim India 30.10.2016.jpg Blue-winged laughingthrush Trochalopteron squamatus Eastern Himalaya, Yunnan, Myanmar and Laos
Davidraju Himachal Pradesh (75).jpg Variegated laughingthrush Trochalopteron variegatum Bhutan, India, Nepal and Tibet.
Black-faced-Laughingthrush Zuluk Sikkim India 12.05.2014.jpg Black-faced laughingthrush Trochalopteron affine eastern Nepal eastwards to Arunachal Pradesh in India and further to Myanmar, along with Bhutan and southeastern Tibet.
Trochalopteron elliotii (cropped).jpg Elliot's laughingthrush Trochalopteron elliotii central China and far northeastern India.
Brown-cheeked laughingthrush Trochalopteron henrici southwestern China and northeastern India
Garrulax morrisonianus -Taiwan-8.jpg White-whiskered laughingthrush Trochalopteron morrisonianum Taiwan.
Chestnut-Crowned Laughingthrus (Garrulax erythrocephalus) in Uttarakhand, India.jpg Chestnut-crowned laughingthrush Trochalopteron erythrocephalum Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal.
Collared laughingthrush Trochalopteron yersini Vietnam.
Leiothrichidae - Trochalopteron milnei.jpg Red-tailed laughingthrush Trochalopteron milnei China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Red-winged Laughing Thrush.jpg Red-winged laughingthrush Trochalopteron formosum China (Sichuan, Yunnan and Guangxi provinces) and north-west Vietnam.
Bhutan Laughingthrush.jpg Bhutan laughingthrush Trochalopteron imbricatum Bhutan and some adjoining areas in India.
Unidentified (33940646233).jpg Assam laughingthrush Trochalopteron chrysopterum Northeast India and adjacent southwest China and Myanmar.
Trochalopteron melanostigma, Mae Wong, Thailand.jpg Silver-eared laughingthrush Trochalopteron melanostigma southern Yunnan, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
Golden-winged laughingthrush Trochalopteron ngoclinhense Vietnam.
Malayan Laughingthrush - Malaysia MG 5797 (19483008652).jpg Malayan laughingthrush Trochalopteron peninsulae southern 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.[6]

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

References[]

  1. ^ Blyth, Edward (1843). "Mr. Blyth's monthly Report for December Meeting, 1842, with Addenda subsequently appended". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 12 (143): 925–1011 [952].
  2. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 391. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 348. |volume= has extra text (help)
  4. ^ Baker, E.C. Stuart (1930). The Fauna of British India Birds including Ceylon and Burma. Birds. 7 (2nd ed.). London: Taylor and Francis. p. 30.
  5. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Laughingthrushes and allies". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  6. ^ 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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