Curruca
Genus of birds
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Taxonomy
The genus Curruca was introduced by the German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1802. The type species (by tautonomy) is the lesser whitethroat Curruca curruca. The name Curruca is the Latin word for an unidentified small bird mentioned by the Roman poet Juvenal. The genus was split from Sylvia in the Howard and Moore Checklist in 2014 after a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011. The split is now recognised by most modern authorities.
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Species
The genus contains the following 25 species:
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