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Alaudidae (lark)
Taxonomy
Alaudidae was named by Vigors (1825). It is extant.
It was assigned to Fringilloidae by Hay (1930); to Oscines by Lambrecht (1933); to Passeres by Wetmore (1940) and Wetmore (1956); and to Passeriformes by Carroll (1988), Guthrie (1992) and Clements et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Fringilloidae by Hay (1930); to Oscines by Lambrecht (1933); to Passeres by Wetmore (1940) and Wetmore (1956); and to Passeriformes by Carroll (1988), Guthrie (1992) and Clements et al. (2017).
Subtaxa
Synonymy list
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Alaudidae Vigors 1825 [lark]
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G. Alauda Linnaeus 1758
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Alauda arvensis Linnaeus 1758 [Eurasian skylark]
†Alauda gypsorum Portis 1887
Alauda leucoptera Pallas 1811 [white-winged lark]
†Alauda major Portis 1887
G. Calandrella Kaup 1829
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Calandrella brachydactyla Leisler 1814 [greater short-toed lark]
†Calandrella cinerea Gmelin 1789
G. Otocoris Bonaparte 1838
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available