Calendulauda
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| Calendulauda | |
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| File:Sabota Lark (Mirafra sabota).jpg | |
| Sabota lark (Calendulauda sabota) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Alaudidae |
| Genus: | Calendulauda Blyth, 1855 |
| Type species | |
| Alauda albescens Lafresnaye, 1839
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| File:Calendulauda distribution map.png | |
| range of the genus | |
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Calendulauda is a genus of lark in the family Alaudidae. Established by Edward Blyth in 1855, it contains eight species.
Taxonomy and systematics
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]The genus Calendulauda contains eight species:[4]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution | |
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| 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 | - |
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References
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