Garrulax

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Garrulax
White-crested laughingthrush, St. Louis Zoo.jpg
White-crested laughingthrush (Garrulax leucolophus)
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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
  • Leucodioptron Bonaparte, 1854
  • Stactocichla Sharpe, 1883
  • Melanocichla Sharpe, 1883
  • Rhinocichla Sharpe, 1883
  • Dryonastes Sharpe, 1883

Garrulax is a genus of passerine birds in the laughingthrush family Leiothrichidae.

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Taxonomy

The genus Garrulax was erected by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1831. [2] The type species was designated in 1961 as Garrulax rufifrons Lesson, the rufous-fronted laughingthrush. [3] [4]

The genus previously included more species. Following the publication of a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, Garrulax was split up and species were moved to the resurrected genera Ianthocincla and Pterorhinus . [5] [6]

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. [7] Much of the trade in these species in Indonesia is illegal and is pushing a number of these species towards extinction. [8] 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. [9]

Species

The genus contains the following 14 species: [6]

ImageCommon NameScientific nameDistribution
Garrulax monileger 2 - Kaeng Krachan.jpg Lesser necklaced laughingthrush Garrulax monilegerBangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Rufous-fronted laughingthrush Garrulax rufifronsJava
Garrulax leucolophus 170546920.jpg White-crested laughingthrush Garrulax leucolophusIndia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, China, Vietnam, and Thailand.
Black-hooded laughingthrush Garrulax milletiLaos and Vietnam
Sumatran Laughingthrush RWD4.jpg Sumatran laughingthrush Garrulax bicolorSumatra
Garrulax strepitans - Mae Wong.jpg White-necked laughingthrush Garrulax strepitansYunnan, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand
Cambodian laughingthrush Garrulax ferrariusCambodia
Grey laughingthrush Garrulax maesisouthern China
Rufous-cheeked laughingthrush Garrulax castanotisChina, Laos, and Vietnam
0A2A3704 Sunda Laughingthrush.jpg Sunda laughingthrush Garrulax palliatusBrunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia
Chinese Hwamei RWD.jpg Chinese hwamei Garrulax canorussouth-eastern and central China and in northern and central Vietnam and Laos
Garrulax taewanus, Taipei 1.jpg Taiwan hwamei Garrulax taewanusTaiwan
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush - Thailand S4E9232 (19483012432).jpg Spot-breasted laughingthrush Garrulax merulinusYunnan, Northeast India, Laos, Myanmar, north-west Thailand, and northern Vietnam
Garrulax annamensis 105771895.jpeg Orange-breasted laughingthrush Garrulax annamensisVietnam

References

  1. "Leiothrichidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  2. Lesson, René (1831). Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: F.G. Levrault. p. 647.
  3. Ripley, Sidney Dillon (1961). Synopsis Birds of India and Pakistan. Bombay: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 380.
  4. Mayr, Ernst; Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, eds. (1964). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 348.
  5. Cibois, A.; Gelang, M.; Alström, P.; Pasquet, E.; Fjeldså, J.; Ericson, P.G.P.; Olsson, U. (2018). "Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy". Zoologica Scripta. 47 (4): 428–440. doi:10.1111/zsc.12296. S2CID   51883434.
  6. 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Laughingthrushes and allies". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  7. Shepherd, Chris R.; Eaton, James A.; Chng, Serene C. L. (2016). "Nothing to laugh about – the ongoing illegal trade in laughingthrushes (Garrulax species) in the bird markets of Java, Indonesia" . Bird Conservation International. 26 (4): 524–530. doi:10.1017/S0959270916000320. ISSN   0959-2709. S2CID   88722096.
  8. Shepherd, Chris R. (2010). "Observations on trade in laughingthrushes ( Garrulax spp.) in North Sumatra, Indonesia". Bird Conservation International. 21 (1): 86–91. doi: 10.1017/S0959270910000274 . ISSN   0959-2709.
  9. Heinrich, Sarah; Leupen, Boyd T.C.; Bruslund, Simon; Owen, Andrew; Shepherd, Chris R. (2021). "A case for better international protection of the Sumatran Laughingthrush (Garrulax bicolor)". Global Ecology and Conservation. 25: e01414. Bibcode:2021GEcoC..2501414H. doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01414 . S2CID   234330951.