Ianthocincla

Ianthocincla is a genus of passerine birds in the family Leiothrichidae.

Ianthocincla
Giant laughingthrush, (Ianthocincla maxima)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Leiothrichidae
Genus:	Ianthocincla Gould, 1835
Type species
Cinclosoma ocellatum Vigors, 1831
Species
See text

Taxonomy

The genus Ianthocincla was erected by English ornithologist and bird artist John Gould in 1835 with the spotted laughingthrush as the type species.^[1][2] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek ionthos "young hair" or "down" with the Neo-Latin cinclus "thrush".^[3] The species now placed in the genus were previously assigned to Garrulax but following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study in 2018, Garrulax was split up and some of the species were moved to the resurrected genus Ianthocincla.^[4][5]

Species

The genus contains eight species:^[5]

Image	Common Name	Scientific name	Distribution
	Spotted laughingthrush	Ianthocincla ocellata	Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal.
	Giant laughingthrush	Ianthocincla maxima	central China and far northern India and Myanmar.
	Barred laughingthrush	Ianthocincla lunulata	central China
	White-speckled laughingthrush	Ianthocincla bieti	China
	Snowy-cheeked laughingthrush	Ianthocincla sukatschewi	northern China
	Moustached laughingthrush	Ianthocincla cineracea	China, India, and Myanmar
	Rufous-chinned laughingthrush	Ianthocincla rufogularis	Sikkim in northeast India
	Chestnut-eared laughingthrush	Ianthocincla konkakinhensis	Vietnam