Galerida

Galerida
Crested lark (Galerida cristata)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Alaudidae
Genus:	Galerida F. Boie, 1828
Type species
Alauda cristata Linnaeus, 1758
Species
See text
Synonyms
Calendula Galerita Heliocorys Ptilocorys

Galerida is a genus of birds in the family Alaudidae. The current scientific name is derived from Latin. Galerida was the name for a lark with a crest, from galerum, "cap". ^[1] The name Galerida is synonymous with the earlier genus names Calendula, Heliocorys and Ptilocorys. ^[2]

Taxonomy and systematics

The genus Galerida was established by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1828. ^[3] The type species was subsequently designated as the crested lark. ^[4]

Extant species

The genus contains seven species: ^[5]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Galerida deva	Sykes's lark	central India
	Galerida modesta	Sun lark	Guinea to South Sudan
	Galerida magnirostris	Large-billed lark	southern Africa
	Galerida theklae	Thekla lark	Iberian Peninsula, in northern Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to Somalia
	Galerida cristata	Crested lark	northern Africa and in parts of western Asia and China
	Galerida malabarica	Malabar lark	western India.
	Galerida macrorhyncha	Maghreb lark	Maghreb desert of north-eastern Africa.

Extinct species

There are at least two fossil species which are included in this genus:

• †Galerida bulgarica (late Pliocene of Varshets, Bulgaria) ^[6]
• †Galerida pannonica (Pliocene of Csarnota, Hungary) ^[7]

Former species

Formerly, some authorities also considered the following species (or subspecies) as species within the genus Galerida:

• Short-tailed lark (as Galerida fremantlii) ^[8]
• Dunn's lark (as Calendula dunni) ^[9]

References

1. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p.  169. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
2. Jobling, James A. (2010-06-30). Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   9781408133262.
3. Boie, Friedrich (1828). "Galerida". Isis von Oken (in German). 21. Col 321.
4. Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 55.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Nicators, reedling, larks". World Bird List Version 8.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
6. Boev, Zlatozar (2012). "Neogene Larks (Aves: Alaudidae (Vigors, 1825)) from Bulgaria" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica. 64 (3): 295–318.
7. Kessler, E (2013). "Neogene songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary". Hantkeniana. 8: 37–149.
8. "Spizocorys fremantlii - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
9. "Eremalauda dunni - Avibase". avibase.bsc-eoc.org. Retrieved 2016-12-19.