Animals by Scientific Class Names

Leiothrix lutea,Red-billed Leiothrix,Pekin Robin,Lovebird, red-billed jade, colorful lovebird, red-billed bird

Features：With its colorful feathers and melodious singing voice, it is one of the famous caged ornamental birds around the world.

Red-billed Leiothrix has 5 subspecies. Red-billed Leiothrix is a resident bird. Except for the breeding period, it usually moves in pairs or alone. In other seasons, it usually moves in small groups of 3-5 or more than 10, and sometimes it also moves in mixed groups with other small birds. It...

Leiothrix argentauris,Silver-eared Mesia,Yellow-billed Jade, Colorful Lovebird

Features：Lively and bold, not afraid of people

Silver-eared Mesia has 9 subspecies.Silver-eared Mesia often moves alone or in pairs, and sometimes in groups, especially in autumn and winter. It is lively and bold, not afraid of people, often jumping in the undergrowth or bamboo groves and in the open space in the forest. It rarely rests on trees...

Liocichla omeiensis,Omei Shan Liocichla

Features：Timid and fearful, uses different habitats in different seasons

The foreign name of the Gray-breasted Bush Babbler is Omei Shan Liocichla, and there is no subspecies.Deignan (1964) believed that the gray-breasted bush thrush may be the same species as the yellow-spotted bush thrush (Liocichla steerii) distributed in Taiwan, China. Delacour (1933, 1946) believed...

Garrulax milnei,Red-tailed Laughingthrush,Trochalopteron milnei,Red-tailed Laughing Babbler

Features：The top of the head to the back of the neck is reddish brown, the wings and tail are bright red, the front of the eyes, eyebrow pattern, cheeks, chin and throat are black, and there is a gray spot behind the eyes

Red-tailed Laughingthrush, also known as Red-tailed Laughingthrush, has 4 subspecies.Red-tailed Laughingthrush often moves in pairs or in small groups of 3 to 5. It is timid and good at singing. Its singing is noisy. It hides in dense bushes at the slightest movement. You can often hear its voice bu...

Garrulax formosus,Red-winged Laughingthrush

Features：The head is gray olive brown with thick black vertical stripes, the wings have large bright red spots, and the tail is also bright red.

Red-winged Laughingthrush has two subspecies.Red-winged Laughingthrush often moves in pairs or small groups of several individuals, often shuttling and jumping between the undergrowth, and also frequently moving and foraging on the ground under the forest. It mainly feeds on insects and plant foods....

Garrulax formosus,Red-winged Laughingthrush

Features：The snout is short and blunt, the ears are short and small, and the tail is very short.

Common voles belong to the subfamily Arvicolinae. There is no dispute about their taxonomic status. However, there are many subspecies, more than 20, which is quite confusing. The one distributed in my country may belong to the Altai subspecies (<M. arvalis obscurus>). It is harmful to farmlan...

Phaiomys leucurus，Pitymys leucurus，Brandt's pine vole, Pine vole, Pine vole、Blyth's vole

Features：It has a very short tail, very short ears, and short limbs. It is a species of the genus M. suspensor that is good at digging.

The white-tailed pine vole belongs to the subfamily of voles (Arvicolinae). The previous classification status was very confusing, but Liu Shaoying et al. (2012, 2017) confirmed that it belongs to the genus Arvicolinae through molecular systematic research. This species is distributed at high altitu...

Neodon irene

Features：The fur on the back is gray, and it is the smallest individual in the genus Pine Vole.

Plateau pine voles belong to the subfamily Arvicolinae. The classification status is stable, and it previously included two subspecies: the nominate subspecies (<N. irene irene>) and the Yunnan subspecies (<N. irene forresti>). In-depth research has found that the Yunnan subspecies of pi...

Eothenomys miletus,Eothenomys miletus confinii,Eothenomys miletus miletus,Asiatic velvet mouse

Features：It is small, short and thick, with short limbs and tail. The back of the body is dark reddish brown, and the belly is blue-gray or gray.

The large woolly rat belongs to the subfamily Arvicolinae. Its classification and identification have long been confusing, and the black-bellied woolly rat (Eothenomys melanogaster) is often included as a subspecies. The identification characteristics are also confusing due to tooth variation. It wa...

Eothenomys eva(Thomas,1911),Taozhou woolly rat

Features：The tail is more than half the length of the body, and the back hair is dense and gray.

Gansu woolly rat belongs to the subfamily Arvicolinae. Gansu woolly rat and another species Caryomys inez are both members of the genus Caryomys. In molecular systematics, Caryomys and Eothenomys are closely related. Previously, Caryomys was always a subgenus of Eothenomys. Liu Shaoying et al. (2012...

Clethrionomys rutilus,,Myodes rutilus,Northern Red-backed Vole,Clethrionomys rutilus

Features：The ears are small, the front and hind limbs are short, the tail is densely haired, and the back hair is bright ochre brown or brown-red.

Red-backed voles belong to the subfamily Microtiinae. The species-level classification status is stable, and there are many subspecies differentiations. There are 2 subspecies in China. It is a typical cold-resistant species in the north. The population in meadows and wetlands in coniferous forests...

Trochalopteron elliotii，Elliot's Laughingthrush，Garrulax elliotii (Verreaux, 1870)

Features：The outer tail feathers are green with orange-yellow edges and white tip spots.

The orange-winged laughingthrush is also known as Elliot's Laughingthrush in English. It has two subspecies.In 2016, the Orange-winged Laughingthrush (Trochalopteron elliotii) was included in the Laughingthrush family and the "Colored-winged Laughingthrush" (Trochalopteron) from the Ga...

Pterorhinus berthemyi,Rusty Laughingthrush,Bamboo bird, Eight-tone bird

Features：Fear of life, dislike open areas

The foreign name of the brown babbler is Rusty Laughingthrush, and there are three subspecies. Dickinson (2003) divided the brown babbler (G.poecilorhynchus) into three subspecies. Some scholars believe that the named subspecies of Brown Noisy Babbler (G.p. poecilorhynchus) is significantly differen...

Pterorhinus courtoisi,Blue-crowned laughingthrush,Chinese Yellow-throated Laughingthrush, Blue-crowned Laughingthrush, Wuyuan Yellow-throated Laughingthrush, Blue-throated Laughingthrush

Features：It is one of the few birds with brightly colored feathers among the thrushes.

Blue-crowned laughingthrush is a small-bodied bird of the family Timalis, with no subspecies.There are dozens of species of Laughingthrush distributed in southern China. Although there are also rare species such as Chestnut-necked Laughingthrush and Brown Laughingthrush, the Indigo-crowned Laughingt...

Garrulax chinensis,Pterorhinus chinensis,Black-throated Laughingthrush,,Dryonastes chinensisBlack-throated Laughing Thrush, Mountain Bird, Coral Bird

Features：The forehead, front of the eyes, around the eyes, chin and throat are black, with a white spot on the black forehead

Black-throated Laughingthrush, also known as Black-throated Laughingthrush, has 5 subspecies.Black-throated Laughingthrush is a resident bird. It often moves in small groups of several or more than 10 individuals, and occasionally it is seen moving alone or in pairs. They often jump around in the bu...

Ianthocincla ocellata,Garrulax ocellatus,Spotted Laughingthrush

Features：Black throat, brownish-yellow chest with black horizontal stripes

Spotted Laughingthrush, also known as Spotted Laughingthrush, has 4 subspecies.Eye-striped Laughingthrush often moves in pairs or small groups, mostly moving and foraging among the bushes under the forest or on the ground, and occasionally making calls of "Kagui, Gui, Gui..." During the br...

Ianthocincla maxima,Giant Laughingthrush,Garrulax maximus,Flower-backed Laughing Babbler

Features：The forehead to the top of the head is dark brown, and the back is chestnut brown with white spots

Giant Laughingthrush, foreign name, no subspecies.The Great Laughingthrush is smaller than the similar species, the Eye-striped Laughingthrush, and has a shorter tail. It has a black throat and neck, and black and white horizontal stripes on its chest. The difference is obvious and it is not difficu...

Clethrionomys rufocanus,Myodes rufocanus,Gray Red-backed Vole,Clethrionomys rufocanus,Hypudoeus rufocanus,Red-haired mouse

Features：It has a stout body, large ears, short limbs, a reddish-brown back, grayish-yellow sides, and dirty white fur on the belly.

The brown-backed croaker belongs to the subfamily Arvicolinae. The species status is very stable, but the genus status is controversial. The species was named in 1846, and Miller (1900) established the subgenus <Craseomys> and regarded the brown-backed croaker as the only species of the subgen...

Alticola stoliczkanus (Blanford,1875)

Features：The back of the body is gray-brown with a yellow-white spot behind the ear.

Alticola strachyi belongs to the Arvicolinae subfamily. The type specimen is found in Ladakh, India. There is no controversy about the classification itself, but the type locality of another species: Kumaung Alticola (<Alticola strachyi>) is also in Ladakh. The difference between the two class...

Alticola argentata,Gray Mountain

Features：The top of the head and back of the body are light brown-gray, with dark gray base and light brown tips; the belly is grayish white, with gray base and white tips.

Belongs to the subfamily Arvicolinae. Its taxonomic status is controversial and is generally considered a synonym of Lowe's alpine croaker (<Alticola roylei>). The subspecies classification is also confusing. All species of the genus Alticola have a relatively limited distribution and hars...

Eospalax smithi,Myospalax smithii,Myospalax smithii Thomas

Features：It is of medium size, with a short tail and dark gray-brown fur.

The Stevens's zokor belongs to the subfamily Myospalacinae. The Stevens's zokor is named after the specimen collected from Lintan, Gansu. There was controversy over whether it is an independent species. Sometimes it is regarded as a subspecies of the Qinling zokor (Eospalax rufescens). It ma...