Garrulax

The genus Garrulax was erected by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1831.{{ cite book | last=Lesson | first=René | author-link=René Lesson | year=1831 | title=Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique | volume=1 | language=French | place=Paris | publisher=F.G. Levrault | page=647 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35997631 }} The type species was designated in 1961 as Garrulax rufifrons Lesson, the rufous-fronted laughingthrush.{{ cite book | last=Ripley | first=Sidney Dillon | author-link=Sidney Dillon Ripley | date=1961 | title=Synopsis Birds of India and Pakistan | location=Bombay | publisher=Bombay Natural History Society | page=380 | url=https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3189/page/380/mode/1up }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Paynter | editor2-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1964 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=10 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=348 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14486537 }}

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.{{ cite journal | last1=Cibois | first1=A. | last2=Gelang | first2=M. | last3=Alström | first3=P. | last4=Pasquet | first4=E. | last5=Fjeldså | first5=J. | last6=Ericson | first6=P.G.P. | last7=Olsson | first7=U. | year=2018 | title=Comprehensive phylogeny of the laughingthrushes and allies (Aves, Leiothrichidae) and a proposal for a revised taxonomy | journal=Zoologica Scripta | volume=47 | issue=4 | pages=428–440 | doi=10.1111/zsc.12296 | s2cid=51883434 }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Laughingthrushes and allies | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/laughingthrushes/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=16 January 2019 }}

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.{{Cite journal |last1=Shepherd |first1=Chris R. |last2=Eaton |first2=James A. |last3=Chng |first3=Serene C. L. |date=2016 |title=Nothing to laugh about – the ongoing illegal trade in laughingthrushes (Garrulax species) in the bird markets of Java, Indonesia |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bird-conservation-international/article/nothing-to-laugh-about-the-ongoing-illegal-trade-in-laughingthrushes-garrulax-species-in-the-bird-markets-of-java-indonesia/3661F9D3238E2C387C2F153310DBD429 |journal=Bird Conservation International |language=en |volume=26 |issue=4 |pages=524–530 |doi=10.1017/S0959270916000320 |s2cid=88722096 |issn=0959-2709|url-access=subscription }} Much of the trade in these species in Indonesia is illegal and is pushing a number of these species towards extinction.{{Cite journal |last=Shepherd |first=Chris R. |date=2010 |title=Observations on trade in laughingthrushes ( Garrulax spp.) in North Sumatra, Indonesia |journal=Bird Conservation International |language=en |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=86–91 |doi=10.1017/S0959270910000274 |issn=0959-2709|doi-access=free }} 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.{{Cite journal |last1=Heinrich |first1=Sarah |last2=Leupen |first2=Boyd T.C. |last3=Bruslund |first3=Simon |last4=Owen |first4=Andrew |last5=Shepherd |first5=Chris R. |date=2021 |title=A case for better international protection of the Sumatran Laughingthrush (Garrulax bicolor) |journal=Global Ecology and Conservation |language=en |volume=25 |pages=e01414 |doi=10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01414|s2cid=234330951 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2021GEcoC..2501414H }}

The genus contains the following 14 species:

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• Collar, N. J. & Robson C. 2007. Family Timaliidae (Babblers) pp. 70 – 291 in; del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World, Vol. 12. Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.

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Category:Bird genera

Category:Leiothrichidae

Category:Taxa named by René Lesson