Alauda
"Skylark" redirects here. For other uses, see Skylark (disambiguation).
| Alauda | |
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Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis)  Song of Eurasian skylark | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Alaudidae |
| Genus: | Alauda Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Alauda is a genus of larks with four species found across much of Europe, Asia and in the mountains of north Africa, and one species (the Raso lark) endemic to the islet of Raso in the Cape Verde Islands. The current genus name is from Latin alauda, "lark". Pliny the Elder thought the word was originally of Celtic origin.[1]
Species in taxonomic order
- Eurasian skylark, Alauda arvensis
- Japanese skylark, Alauda a. japonica
- Oriental skylark, Alauda gulgula
- Raso lark, Alauda razae
- White-winged lark, Alauda leucoptera
Previously, some authorities also classified the following species within the genua Alauda:
- Short-clawed lark (as A. chuana)[2]
- Cape long-billed lark (as A. curvirostris)[3]
- Dusky lark (as A. nigricans)[4]
- Rufous-rumped lark (as A. erythropygia)[5]
- Desert lark (as A. deserti)[6]
- Ashy-crowned sparrow-lark (as A. grisea)[7]
- Pink-breasted lark (as A. poecilosterna)[8]
- Karoo lark (as A. albescens)[9]
- Dune lark (as A. erythrochlamys)[10]
- Eastern clapper lark (as A. fasciolata)[11]
- Woodlark (as A. arborea)[12]
- Botha's lark (as A. fringillaris)[13]
- Pink-billed lark (as A. conirostris)[14]
Fossil record
- Alauda xerarvensis (late Pliocene of Varshets, Bulgaria)[15]
- Alauda tivadari (late Miocene of Polgardi, Hungary)[16]
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- ↑ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ↑ "Certhilauda chuana - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
- ↑ "Certhilauda curvirostris - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
- ↑ "Pinarocorys nigricans - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
- ↑ "Pinarocorys erythropygia - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-11-11.
- ↑ "Ammomanes deserti - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
- ↑ "Eremopterix griseus - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
- ↑ "Calendulauda poecilosterna - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
- ↑ "Calendulauda albescens - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
- ↑ "Calendulauda erythrochlamys - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-11-19.
- ↑ "Mirafra fasciolata - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
- ↑ "Lullula arborea - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-11-30.
- ↑ "Spizocorys fringillaris - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
- ↑ "Spizocorys conirostris - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
- ↑ Boev, Z. 2012. Neogene Larks (Aves: Alaudidae (Vigors, 1825)) from Bulgaria - Acta zoologica bulgarica, 64 (3), 2012: 295-318.
- ↑ Kessler, E. 2013. Neogene songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary. – Hantkeniana, Budapest, 2013, 8: 37-149.
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