Calendulauda

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| image = Sabota Lark (Mirafra sabota).jpg

| image_caption = Sabota lark (Calendulauda sabota)

| taxon = Calendulauda

| authority = Blyth, 1855

| type_species = Alauda albescens

| type_species_authority = Lafresnaye, 1839

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| range_map = Calendulauda distribution map.png

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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

The genus Calendulauda was introduced by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1855 with the Karoo lark as the type species.{{ cite journal | last=Blyth | first=Edward | author-link=Edward Blyth | year=1855 | title=Calendulauda | journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal | volume=24 | issue=3 | page=258 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40268552 }}{{ cite book | editor-last1=Dickinson | editor-first1=E.C. | editor1-link=Edward C. Dickinson | editor-last2=Christidis | editor-first2=L. | editor2-link=Leslie Christidis | year=2014 | title=The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World | volume=2: Passerines | edition=4th | place=Eastbourne, UK | publisher=Aves Press | isbn=978-0-9568611-2-2 | page=437 }} The name Calendulauda is a combination of the names of two other lark genera: Calendula and Alauda. 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:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=August 2024 | title=Nicators, Bearded Reedling, larks | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/larks/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=9 September 2024 }}

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
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	Calendulauda rufa	Rusty bush lark	central and west Africa
120px	Calendulauda sabota	Sabota lark	southern Africa
120px	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
120px	Calendulauda africanoides	Fawn-coloured lark (includes Foxy lark)	south-central and east-central Africa
120px	Calendulauda albescens	Karoo lark	South Africa
120px	Calendulauda burra	Red lark	western South Africa and possibly Namibia
120px	Calendulauda erythrochlamys	Dune lark (includes Barlow's lark)	Namibia and northwest South Africa \|

References

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{{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/n397 397] }}

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Category:Bird genera

Category:Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa

Category:Taxa named by Edward Blyth