Eremopterix

Eremopterix
	Males and females of the six; species on the African mainland
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Alaudidae
Genus:	Eremopterix; Kaup, 1836
Type species
	Fringilla otoleuca; Temminck, 1824
Species
	See text
	Range of the genus
Synonyms
	Coraphites; Megalotis; Pyrrhulauda - A. Smith, 1839;

Eremopterix is the genus of sparrow-larks, songbirds in the family Alaudidae. The sparrow-larks are found from Africa to the Indian subcontinent.

Taxonomy and systematics[edit]

Extant species[edit]

The genus Eremopterix contains the following extant species:^[3]

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Eremopterix australis	Black-eared sparrow-lark	southern Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa
Eremopterix hova	Madagascar lark	Madagascar.
Eremopterix nigriceps	Black-crowned sparrow-lark	Mauritania through the Middle East to north-western India
Eremopterix leucotis	Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark	Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
Eremopterix griseus	Ashy-crowned sparrow-lark	South Asia
Eremopterix signatus	Chestnut-headed sparrow-lark	eastern and north-eastern Africa
Eremopterix verticalis	Grey-backed sparrow-lark	southern and south-central Africa
Eremopterix leucopareia	Fischer's sparrow-lark	central Kenya to eastern Zambia, Malawi and north-western Mozambique

Former species[edit]

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

Arabian Dunn's lark (as Pyrrhulauda eremodites)

References[edit]

^ "Alaudidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
^ Mlíkovský, Jirí (1998). "Generic name of southern snowfinches" (PDF). Forktail. 14: 85. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2012.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Nicators, reedling, larks". World Bird List Version 8.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 July 2018.

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[HM4-1] "Alaudidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.

[2] Mlíkovský, Jirí (1998). "Generic name of southern snowfinches" (PDF). Forktail. 14: 85. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2012.

[ioc-3] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Nicators, reedling, larks". World Bird List Version 8.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 July 2018.

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