| Trochalopteron | |
|---|---|
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| Streaked laughingthrush (Trochalopteron lineatum) | |
Scientific classification | |
| 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 ofpasserine birds in the laughingthrush familyLeiothrichidae.
The genusTrochalopteron was introduced in 1843 by the English zoologistEdward Blyth.[1] The name combines theAncient Greektrokhalos meaning "round" or "bowed" withpteron meaning "wing".[2] Thetype species was designated in 1930 byE. C. Stuart Baker as thescaly laughingthrush.[3][4]
The genus contains the following 19 species:[5]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
._It_is_found_in_India_and_Myanmar._(34587626122).jpg) | Brown-capped laughingthrush | Trochalopteron austeni | Patkai range, India |
 | Scaly laughingthrush | Trochalopteron subunicolor | Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam. |
.jpg) | Streaked laughingthrush | Trochalopteron lineatum | Turkestan Range to the Safed Koh and east through the Himalayas towards Sikkim. |
 | Striped laughingthrush | Trochalopteron virgatum | Patkai range, India |
 | Blue-winged laughingthrush | Trochalopteron squamatum | Eastern Himalaya, Yunnan, Myanmar and Laos |
_(75).jpg) | 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. |
.jpg) | 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. |
_in_Uttarakhand%2c_India.jpg) | Chestnut-crowned laughingthrush | Trochalopteron erythrocephalum | Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal. |
.jpeg) | 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. |
.jpg) | 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. |
.jpg) | Malayan laughingthrush | Trochalopteron peninsulae | southern Thailand and peninsular Malaysia. |
Two species that were formerly included in this genus have been moved toMontecincla based on phylogenetic studies that showed them to be more distantly related to theTrochalopteron clade than to a clade formed by species in the generaLeiothrix,Actinodura,Minla,Crocias andHeterophasia.[6]
