| Garrulax | |
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| White-crested laughingthrush (Garrulax leucolophus) | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Leiothrichidae |
| Genus: | Garrulax Lesson, 1831 |
| Type species | |
| Garrulax belangeri[1] Lesson, 1831 | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms | |
Garrulax is agenus ofpasserine birds in the laughingthrush familyLeiothrichidae.
The genusGarrulax was erected by the French naturalistRené Lesson in 1831.[2] Thetype species was designated in 1961 as therufous-fronted laughingthrush (Garrulax rufifrons).[3]
The genus previously included more species. Following the publication of a comprehensivemolecular phylogenetic study in 2018,Garrulax was split up and species were moved to the resurrected generaIanthocincla andPterorhinus.[4][5]
Garrulax species are heavily traded as songbirds. A survey of eight bird markets in Indonesia, carried out in 2014–2015, found 615 laughingthrushes of nine species openly for sale.[6] Much of the trade in these species in Indonesia is illegal and is pushing a number of these species towards extinction.[7] The Sumatran Laughingthrush, for example, is in serious decline due to ongoing and uncontrolled illegal trade in bird markets on the islands of Java and Sumatra, and is increasingly found in international trade, though in lower numbers.[8]
The genus contains the following 14 species:[5]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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 | Lesser necklaced laughingthrush | Garrulax monileger | Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. |
| Rufous-fronted laughingthrush | Garrulax rufifrons | Java | |
 | White-crested laughingthrush | Garrulax leucolophus | India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, China, Vietnam, and Thailand. |
| Black-hooded laughingthrush | Garrulax milleti | Laos and Vietnam. | |
 | Sumatran laughingthrush | Garrulax bicolor | Sumatra |
 | White-necked laughingthrush | Garrulax strepitans | Yunnan, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand. |
| Cambodian laughingthrush | Garrulax ferrarius | Cambodia. | |
| Grey laughingthrush | Garrulax maesi | southern China | |
| Rufous-cheeked laughingthrush | Garrulax castanotis | China, Laos, and Vietnam. | |
 | Sunda laughingthrush | Garrulax palliatus | Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia |
 | Chinese hwamei | Garrulax canorus | south-eastern and central China and in northern and central Vietnam and Laos. |
 | Taiwan hwamei | Garrulax taewanus | Taiwan |
.jpg) | Spot-breasted laughingthrush | Garrulax merulinus | Yunnan, Northeast India, Laos, Myanmar, north-west Thailand, and northern Vietnam. |
 | Orange-breasted laughingthrush | Garrulax annamensis | Vietnam |
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