Calendulauda

Calendulauda is a genus of lark in the family Alaudidae. Established by Edward Blyth in 1855, it contains eight species.

Calendulauda
Sabota lark (Calendulauda sabota)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Alaudidae
Genus:	Calendulauda Blyth, 1855
Type species
Alauda albescens Lafresnaye, 1839
range of the genus

Taxonomy and systematics

The genus Calendulauda was introduced by the English zoologist Edward Blyth in 1855 with the Karoo lark as the type species.^[1][2] The name Calendulauda is a combination of the names of two other lark genera: Calendula and Alauda.^[3] All of the species in this genus were formerly assigned to the genus Mirafra and several were also formerly assigned to the genera Alauda and Certhilauda.

Species

The genus Calendulauda contains eight species:^[4]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Calendulauda rufa	Rusty bush lark	central and west Africa
	Calendulauda sabota	Sabota lark	southern Africa
	Calendulauda poecilosterna	Pink-breasted lark	southeastern South Sudan and southern Ethiopia through Kenya to southern Somalia, northeastern Tanzania and eastern Uganda
	Calendulauda gilletti	Gillett's lark	east Africa
	Calendulauda africanoides	Fawn-coloured lark (includes Foxy lark)	south-central and east-central Africa
	Calendulauda albescens	Karoo lark	South Africa
	Calendulauda burra	Red lark	western South Africa and possibly Namibia
	Calendulauda erythrochlamys	Dune lark (includes Barlow's lark)	Namibia and northwest South Africa	-