''Trochalopteron'' is a genus of

passerine A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin 'sparrow' and '-shaped'), which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by th ...

birds in the laughingthrush family

Leiothrichidae The laughingthrushes are a family, Leiothrichidae, of Old World passerine birds. They are diverse in size and coloration. These are birds of tropical areas, with the greatest variety in Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent. The entire fami ...

Taxonomy

The genus ''Trochalopteron'' was introduced in 1843 by the English zoologist

Edward Blyth Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the museum of the Asiatic Society of India in Calcutta. Blyth was born in London in 1810. In 1841 ...

. The name combines the

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

''trokhalos'' meaning "round" or "bowed" with ''pteron'' meaning "wing". The

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen( ...

was designated in 1930 by

E. C. Stuart Baker Edward Charles Stuart Baker Order of the Indian Empire, CIE Order of the British Empire, OBE FZS FLS (1864 – 16 April 1944) was a British ornithology, ornithologist and police officer. He catalogued the birds of India and produced the second ...

as the

scaly laughingthrush The scaly laughingthrush (''Trochalopteron subunicolor'') is a bird species in the family Leiothrichidae. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA ...

Species

The genus contains the following 19 species:

Former species

Two species that were formerly included in this genus have been moved to ''

Montecincla ''Montecincla'' is a genus of passerine birds in the family Leiothrichidae. All four species in this genus are endemic to “sky islands” in the Western Ghats mountain range of southwestern India India, officially the Republic of India ...

'' 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''. *

Black-chinned laughingthrush The black-chinned laughingthrush or rufous-breasted laughingthrush has been split into the following species: * Nilgiri laughingthrush, ''Montecincla cachinnans'' * Banasura laughingthrush The Banasura laughingthrush (''Montecincla jerdoni'') is ...

, ''Montecincla cachinnans'' (with ''jerdoni'' separated as a full species) *

Kerala laughingthrush The grey-breasted laughingthrush or Kerala laughingthrush has been split into the following species: * Palani laughingthrush, ''Montecincla fairbanki'' * Ashambu laughingthrush, ''Montecincla meridionalis'' {{Animal common name Birds by common ...

, ''Montecincla fairbanki''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2129285 Bird genera Leiothrichidae Taxa named by Edward Blyth