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Alaemon

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

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| image = Greater Hoopoe Lark - Kutch, crop.jpg

| image_caption = Greater hoopoe-lark (Alaemon alaudipes)

| taxon = Alaemon

| authority = Keyserling & Blasius, 1840

| type_species = Alauda desertorum{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=163 |title= Alaudidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Stanley, 1814

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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| range_map = Alaemon distribution map.png

| range_map_caption = range of genus

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Alaemon is a genus of birds in the family Alaudidae, commonly called hoopoe larks.

Taxonomy and systematics

The name Alaemon comes from the Greek alēmōn, meaning "wanderer" (from alaomai, meaning "to wander"). The genus was established by Alexander Keyserling and Johann Heinrich Blasius in 1840.

=Extant species=

The genus contains two species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2018 | title=Nicators, reedling, larks | work=World Bird List Version 8.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/larks/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=15 July 2018 }}

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ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
120pxAlaemon alaudipesGreater hoopoe-larkCape Verde Islands across much of northern Africa, through the Arabian peninsula, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India
Alaemon hamertoniLesser hoopoe-larkSomalia

=Former species=

Other species, or subspecies, formerly considered as species in the genus Alaemon include:

  • Damara longbill (as Alaemon damarensis){{Cite web|url=http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=D3CD4716&sec=summary&ssver=1|title=Certhilauda damarensis - Avibase|website=avibase.bsc-eoc.org|access-date=2016-12-16}}
  • Gordonia longbill (as Alaemon bradshawi){{Cite web|url=http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=346A6F4D&sec=summary&ssver=1|title=Certhilauda subcoronata bradshawi - Avibase|website=avibase.bsc-eoc.org|access-date=2016-12-17}}
  • Benguela long-billed lark (as Alaemon benguelensis){{Cite web|url=http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=E42D0008110E6119|title=Certhilauda benguelensis - Avibase|website=avibase.bsc-eoc.org|access-date=2016-12-16}}
  • South-eastern Dupont's lark (as Alaemon Margaritae){{Cite web|url=http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?lang=EN&avibaseid=26997F57&sec=summary&ssver=1|title=Chersophilus duponti margaritae - Avibase|website=avibase.bsc-eoc.org|access-date=2016-12-18}}

References

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{{ cite web | url = https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=557386 | title = ITIS Report: Alaemon | access-date = 25 November 2014 | publisher = Integrated Taxonomic Information System }}

{{cite book | title = The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Names | url = https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | first = James A. | last = Jobling | year = 2010 | location = London, UK | publisher = Christopher Helm | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page = [https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n37 37] }}

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Category:Bird genera

Category:Taxa named by Alexander von Keyserling

Category:Taxa named by Johann Heinrich Blasius

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