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Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush

Garrulax [merulinus or annamensis] (= Garrulax merulinus) Blyth, E 1851

The spot-breasted laughingthrush is a species of bird in the family Leiothrichidae. It is found in Yunnan, Northeast India, Laos, Myanmar, north-west Thailand, and northern Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Source: Wikipedia




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Classification
Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Leiothrichidae
Genus:
   Garrulax
Scientific:
  Garrulax merulinus


Original description

Citation:
  Blyth, E 1851

Reference:
   J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 20, no.6 p.521

Protonym:
  Garrulax merulinus

Type locality:
  Cherrapunji, Khasi Hills, Assam.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124444#page/583/mode/1up


Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  C0BC8074A6C0CDC1

Avibase ID:
  avibase-C0BC8074

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/C0BC8074


Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 560190

Geographic range:

  • Garrulax merulinus: foothill to submontane understory of broadleaf evergreen forest, bamboo, and dense secondary growth, from northeastern India eastward to southern China and northern Vietnam, and southward to western Myanmar and northern Thailand
  • Garrulax merulinus merulinus: northeastern India, northern and western Myanmar, and western Yunnan (southeastern China)
  • Garrulax merulinus laoensis: northwestern Thailand
  • Garrulax merulinus obscurus: southern China and northern Indochina
  • Garrulax annamensis: Vietnam (Langbian Plateau)
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English:
Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush
French:
Garrulaxe à poitrine tachetée ou G. du Langbian


Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current):
Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax [merulinus or annamensis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023):
Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax [merulinus or annamensis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024):
Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax [merulinus or annamensis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025):
Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax [merulinus or annamensis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013):
Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax [merulinus or annamensis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014):
Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax [merulinus or annamensis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015):
Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax [merulinus or annamensis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016):
Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax [merulinus or annamensis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017):
Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax [merulinus or annamensis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018):
Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax [merulinus or annamensis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020):
Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax [merulinus or annamensis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021):
Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax [merulinus or annamensis])
Birdlife checklist version 00:
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Commission internationale pour les noms français des oiseaux (1993):
Garrulaxe à poitrine tachetée ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Clements 1st edition:
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Clements 3rd edition:
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Clements 4th edition:
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Clements 5th edition (as published):
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Clements 5th edition (incl. 2000 revisions):
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Clements 5th edition (incl. 2001 revisions):
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Clements 5th edition (incl. 2002 revisions):
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Clements 5th edition (incl. 2003 revisions):
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Clements 5th edition (incl. 2004 revisions):
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Clements 5th edition (incl. 2005 revisions):
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Clements 6th edition:
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Clements 6th edition (incl. 2007 revisions):
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Clements 6th edition (incl. 2008 revisions):
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Clements 6th edition (incl. 2009 revisions):
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
eBird version 1.50:
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 2nd edition:
Spot-breasted Laughing Thrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 2nd edition (incl. ? suppl):
Spot-breasted Laughing Thrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (as published):
Spot-breasted Laughing-thrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 1.2):
Spot-breasted Laughing-thrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 2.1):
Spot-breasted Laughing-thrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 3.1):
Spot-breasted Laughing-thrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 4):
Spot-breasted Laughing-thrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 5):
Spot-breasted Laughing-thrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 6):
Spot-breasted Laughing-thrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 7):
Spot-breasted Laughing-thrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 3rd edition (incl. corrigenda 8):
Spot-breasted Laughing-thrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2):
Spot-breasted Laughing-thrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2):
Spot-breasted Laughing-thrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.0:
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 1.1:
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Morony, Bock and Farrand:
Spot-breasted Laughing-thrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Oriental Bird Club:
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Peters' Check-list of the Birds:
Garrulax merulinus [version 1]
Peters' Check-list of the Birds (original):
Garrulax merulinus [version 1]
Peters' Check-list of the Birds (2nd edition):
Garrulax merulinus [version 1]
Sibley and Monroe (1993):
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Sibley and Monroe (1993, including corrections up to 1998):
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Sibley and Monroe, Birds of the World Version 2.0:
Spot-breasted Laughingthrush ( Garrulax merulinus) [version 1]
Zoonomen - Zoological Nomenclature Resource:
Garrulax merulinus [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: species group (sometimes a species)

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Czech: Sojkovec kropenatý, sojkovec proužkoprsý
Danish: Skælstrubet Skadedrossel
German: Fleckenhäherling, Flecken-Häherling
English: Spot breasted Laughingthrush, Spot-breasted Laughing Thrush, Spot-breasted Laughingthrush, Spot-breasted Laughing-thrush, Spot-breasted or Orange-breasted Laughingthrush, Spottedbreasted Laughingthrush
Spanish: Tordo Jocoso de Pecho Moteado
Finnish: täplärintanauruli, Täplärintatimali
French: Garrulax tacheté, Garrulaxe à poitrine tachetée, Garrulaxe à poitrine tachetée ou G. du Langbian, Garrulaxe merle
Italian: Garrulo schiamazzante pettomaculato, Garrulo sghignazzante pettomacchiato
Japanese (romaji): muna-boshi gabi-chō, munaboshigabichou
Japanese: ムナボシガビチョウ
Japanese (Kanji): 胸星画眉鳥
Scientific: Garrulax [merulinus or annamensis], Garrulax merulinus, Garrulax merulinus merulinus, Stactocichla merulina
Lithuanian: Dryžakrūtis rudasis garulaksas
Dutch: Vlekborstlijstergaai, Vlekborst-lijstergaai
Norwegian: Flekkbrystlattertrost
Polish: sójkowiec plamisty
Pinyin: bān-xiōng zào-méi
Russian: Пятнистая кустарница
Slovak: timáliovec škvrnitoprsý
Swedish: Fjällstrupig fnittertrast
Thai: นกกะรางอกลาย
Thai (Transliteration): nók kà-raaŋ òk-laay
Ukrainian: Чагарниця смугастовола
Vietnamese: Chim Khướư ngực đốm, Khướu ngực đốm
Chinese: 斑胸噪鹛
Chinese (Traditional): 斑胸噪鶥

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