Trochalopteron
Genus of birds
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Trochalopteron is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae.
| 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 | |
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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 |
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._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,_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. |
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
