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Eremopterix

Genus of birds

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Taxonomy

The genus Eremopterix was introduced in 1836 by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup. The name combines the Ancient Greek ερημος/erēmos meaning "desert" with πτερυξ/pterux, πτερυγος/pterugos meaning "bird" or "winged creature". Kaup did not specify a type species but in 1907 the Russian ornithologist Valentin Bianchi designated the type as Fringilla otoleuca Temminck, 1824. This is a junior synonym of Alaudo melanocephala Lichtenstein, 1823, which is considered to be a subspecies of Eremopterix leucotis (Stanley, 1814), the chestnut-backed sparrow-lark.

The genus contains the following eight species:

Former species

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

  • Arabian Dunn's lark (as Pyrrhulauda eremodites)

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