Trochalopteron

Trochalopteron
	Streaked laughingthrush (Trochalopteron lineatum)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Leiothrichidae
Genus:	Trochalopteron; Blyth, 1843
Species
	See text

Trochalopteron is a genus of passerine birds in the family Leiothrichidae.[1]

Species

It contains the following 19 species:[2]

Brown-capped laughingthrush,Trochalopteron austeni
Scaly laughingthrush, Trochalopteron subunicolor
Streaked laughingthrush, Trochalopteron lineatum
Striped laughingthrush, Trochalopteron virgatum
Blue-winged laughingthrush, Trochalopteron squamatus
Variegated laughingthrush, Trochalopteron variegatum
Black-faced laughingthrush, Trochalopteron affine
Elliot's laughingthrush, Trochalopteron elliotii
Brown-cheeked laughingthrush, Trochalopteron henrici
White-whiskered laughingthrush, Trochalopteron morrisonianum
Chestnut-crowned laughingthrush, Trochalopteron erythrocephalum
Collared laughingthrush, Trochalopteron yersini
Red-tailed laughingthrush, Trochalopteron milnei
Red-winged laughingthrush, Trochalopteron formosum
Bhutan laughingthrush, Trochalopteron imbricatum
Assam laughingthrush, Trochalopteron chrysopterum
Silver-eared laughingthrush, Trochalopteron melanostigma
Golden-winged laughingthrush, Trochalopteron ngoclinhense
Malayan laughingthrush, Trochalopteron peninsulae

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.[3]

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

References

Collar, N. J. & Robson C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
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.

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[1] Collar, N. J. & Robson C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

[ioc-2] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Laughingthrushes and allies". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

[3] 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.