Chersomanes

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

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| image = Chersomanes albofasciata (Etosha).jpg

| image_caption = Spike-heeled lark (Chersomanes albofasciata)

| taxon = Chersomanes

| authority = Cabanis, 1851

| type_species = Certhilauda garrula{{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 = A. Smith, 1846

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 2, see text

| range_map = Chersomanes distribution map.png

| range_map_caption = {{legend0|#008000|range of genus|outline=gray}}

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Chersomanes is a genus of larks in the family Alaudidae found in southern and southeastern Africa.

It contains the 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 | accessdate=15 July 2018 }}

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ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
120pxChersomanes beesleyiBeesley's larknortheastern Tanzania
120pxChersomanes albofasciataSpike-heeled larksouthern Africa

References

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Category:Bird genera

Category:Taxa named by Jean Cabanis

Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot

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