Trochalopteron
Genus of birds
| Trochalopteron | |
|---|---|
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| Streaked laughingthrush (Trochalopteron lineatum) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Leiothrichidae |
| Genus: | Trochalopteron Blyth, 1843 |
| Type species | |
| Trochalopteron subunicolor (scaly laughingthrush) Blyth, 1843 | |
| Species | |
| See text | |
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 | Patkai range, India |
 | Scaly laughingthrush | Trochalopteron subunicolor | Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam. |
 | Streaked laughingthrush | Trochalopteron lineatum | Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, and Tajikistan. |
 | Striped laughingthrush | Trochalopteron virgatum | Patkai range, India |
 | Blue-winged laughingthrush | Trochalopteron squamatum | Eastern Himalaya, Yunnan, Myanmar and Laos |
 | Variegated laughingthrush | Trochalopteron variegatum | Bhutan, India, Nepal and Tibet. |
 | Black-faced laughingthrush | Trochalopteron affine | eastern Nepal eastwards to Arunachal Pradesh in India and further to Myanmar, along with Bhutan and southeastern Tibet. |
 | Elliot's laughingthrush | Trochalopteron elliotii | central China and far northeastern India. |
| Brown-cheeked laughingthrush | Trochalopteron henrici | southwestern China and northeastern India | |
 | White-whiskered laughingthrush | Trochalopteron morrisonianum | Taiwan. |
 | Chestnut-crowned laughingthrush | Trochalopteron erythrocephalum | Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal. |
 | Collared laughingthrush | Trochalopteron yersini | Vietnam. |
 | Red-tailed laughingthrush | Trochalopteron milnei | China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. |
 | Red-winged laughingthrush | Trochalopteron formosum | China (Sichuan, Yunnan and Guangxi provinces) and north-west Vietnam. |
 | Bhutan laughingthrush | Trochalopteron imbricatum | Bhutan and some adjoining areas in India. |
 | Assam laughingthrush | Trochalopteron chrysopterum | Northeast India and adjacent southwest China and Myanmar. |
 | Silver-eared laughingthrush | Trochalopteron melanostigma | southern Yunnan, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. |
 | Golden-winged laughingthrush | Trochalopteron ngoclinhense | Vietnam. |
 | 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
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- ^ 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].
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 391. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 348.
- ^ Baker, E.C. Stuart (1930). The Fauna of British India Birds including Ceylon and Burma. Birds. Vol. 7 (2nd ed.). London: Taylor and Francis. p. 30.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Laughingthrushes and allies". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ^ 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. PMC 5259981. PMID 28114902.
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