Eremomela

Eremomela
Black-necked eremomela (Eremomela atricollis) in Sakania, DR Congo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cisticolidae
Genus:	Eremomela Sundevall, 1850
Type species
Sylvia flaviventris [1] Burchell, 1822

The eremomelas are a genus, Eremomela, of passerines in the cisticola family Cisticolidae. The genus was previously placed with the larger Old World warbler family Sylviidae prior to that genus being broken up into several families. The genus contains eleven species, all of which are found in sub-Saharan Africa. They occupy a range of habitats, from arid scrub to lowland tropical forest. They are intermediate in appearance between crombecs and apalis, and measure between 8.5 to 12 cm (3.3–4.7 in) in length. The sexes are alike in size and plumage. ^[2]

The genus was erected by the Swedish zoologist Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1850. The type species is the yellow-bellied eremomela (Eremomela icteropygialis). ^{[3] [4]} The genus name Eremomela comes from Ancient Greek ἐρῆμος (erêmos), meaning "desert", and μέλος (mélos), meaning "song, melody". ^[5]

Species

The genus contains 10 species: ^[6]

Image	Common Name	Scientific Name	Distribution
	Yellow-bellied eremomela	Eremomela icteropygialis	Africa south of the Sahara
	Yellow-vented eremomela	Eremomela flavicrissalis	Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda.
	Senegal eremomela	Eremomela pusilla	southern Mauritania and Senegal to north western Cameroon, south-western Chad and far north-western Central African Republic
	Green-backed eremomela	Eremomela canescens	Kenya and Ethiopia to Cameroon.
	Green-capped eremomela	Eremomela scotops	Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Republic of the Congo, DRC, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
	Karoo eremomela	Eremomela gregalis	Namibia and South Africa.
	Burnt-necked eremomela	Eremomela usticollis	Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
	Rufous-crowned eremomela	Eremomela badiceps	African tropical rainforest.
	Turner's eremomela	Eremomela turneri	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Uganda.
	Black-necked eremomela	Eremomela atricollis	Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Zambia.

References

1. "Cisticolidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
2. Madge, Steve (2006), "Family Sylviidae (Old World Warblers)", in del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew; Christie, David (eds.), Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 11, Old World Flycatchers to Old World Warblers, Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, pp. 683–685, ISBN   978-84-96553-06-4
3. Sundevall, Carl Jakob (1850). "Eremomela". Öfversigt Af Kongl. Vetenskaps-akademiens Forhandlingar (in Swedish). 7: 102.
4. Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 196.
5. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 148. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Grassbirds, Donacobius, Malagasy warblers, cisticolas & allies". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 26 August 2017.