Black-throated laughingthrush

The black-throated laughingthrush (Pterorhinus chinensis) is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It is found in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. It occurs as an introduced species in Hong Kong.[1] Based on a combination of strong morphological and genetic evidence, the subspecies on Hainan Island is treated as a distinct species by some authors, Swinhoe's laughingthrush (Garrulax monachus).[2][3]

Black-throated laughingthrush
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Leiothrichidae
Genus: Pterorhinus
Species:
P. chinensis
Binomial name
Pterorhinus chinensis
(Scopoli, 1786)
Synonyms

Ianthocincla chinensis
Garrulax chinensis

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, mostly at submontane to montane elevations.[1]

The black-throated laughingthrush was at one time placed in the genus Garrulax but following the publication of a comprehensive molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, it was moved to the resurrected genus Pterorhinus.[4][5]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Garrulax chinensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Wu, Yuchun; Huang, Junhui; Zhang, Min; Luo, Site; Zhang, Yanhua; Lei, Fumin; Sheldon, Frederick H.; Zou, Fasheng (2012). "Genetic divergence and population demography of the Hainan endemic Black-throated Laughingthrush (Aves: Timaliidae, Garrulax chinensis monachus) and adjacent mainland subspecies". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 65 (2): 482–489. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.07.005. PMID 22820021.
  3. Liu; et al. Naturalist's Guide to the Birds of Southeast China. John Beaufoy Publishers Ltd. ISBN 978-1909612235.
  4. 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.
  5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Laughingthrushes and allies". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 18 January 2019.


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