Calendulauda

Calendulauda
	Sabota lark (Calendulauda sabota)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Alaudidae
Genus:	Calendulauda; Blyth, 1855
Type species
	Alauda albescens; Lafresnaye, 1839
	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 has eight extant species:^[4]

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Calendulauda sabota	Sabota lark	southern Africa
Calendulauda poecilosterna	Pink-breasted lark	southeastern South Sudan and southern Ethiopia through Kenya to southern Somalia, northeastern Tanzania and eastern Uganda
Calendulauda alopex	Foxy lark	east-central Africa.
Calendulauda africanoides	Fawn-coloured lark	south-central Africa.
Calendulauda albescens	Karoo lark	South Africa
Calendulauda burra	Red lark	western South Africa and possibly Namibia
Calendulauda erythrochlamys	Dune lark	Namibia
Calendulauda barlowi	Barlow's lark	Namibia and South Africa

References

^ Blyth, Edward (1855). "Calendulauda". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 24 (3): 258.
^ 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.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Names. London, UK: Christopher Helm. p. 397. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Nicators, reedling, larks". World Bird List Version 8.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 18 July 2018.