Calendulauda

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Calendulauda
File:Sabota Lark (Mirafra sabota).jpg
Sabota lark (Calendulauda sabota)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Alaudidae
Genus: Calendulauda
Blyth, 1855
Type species
Alauda albescens
File:Calendulauda distribution map.png
      range of the genus

Calendulauda is a genus of lark in the family Alaudidae. Established by Edward Blyth in 1855, it contains eight species.

Taxonomy and systematics

The genus Calendulauda was introduced by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1855 with the Karoo lark as the type species.[1][2] The name Calendulauda is a combination of the names of two other lark genera: Calendula and Alauda.[3] All of the species in this genus were formerly assigned to the genus Mirafra and several were also formerly assigned to the genera Alauda and Certhilauda.

Species

The genus Calendulauda contains eight species:[4]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Calendulauda rufa Rusty bush lark central and west Africa
File:Sabota lark, Calendulauda sabota, at Loodswaai Game Reserve, Gauteng, South Africa, crop.jpg Calendulauda sabota Sabota lark southern Africa
File:Pink-breasted Lark - KenyaIMG 6762 (16740113947).jpg Calendulauda poecilosterna Pink-breasted lark southeastern South Sudan and southern Ethiopia through Kenya to southern Somalia, northeastern Tanzania and eastern Uganda
Calendulauda gilletti Gillett's lark east Africa
File:Fawn-coloured lark (Calendulauda africanoides africanoides) 2.jpg Calendulauda africanoides Fawn-coloured lark (includes Foxy lark) south-central and east-central Africa
File:Calendulauda albescens.jpg Calendulauda albescens Karoo lark South Africa
File:Certhilauda burra -near Springbok, Northern Cape, South Africa-6.jpg Calendulauda burra Red lark western South Africa and possibly Namibia
File:Certhilauda erythrochlamys.jpg Calendulauda erythrochlamys Dune lark (includes Barlow's lark) Namibia and northwest South Africa -

References

  1. Blyth, Edward (1855). "Calendulauda". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 24 (3): 258.
  2. Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 437. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Names. London, UK: Christopher Helm. p. 397. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Nicators, Bearded Reedling, larks". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 9 September 2024.

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