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Trochalopteron

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Trochalopteron
Streaked laughingthrush (Trochalopteron lineatum)
Scientific classification Edit this 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

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

Taxonomy

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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

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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

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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]

References

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  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. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 348.
  4. ^ 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.
  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. PMC 5259981. PMID 28114902.