# Alauda > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alauda > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alauda.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alauda > Source revision: 1352093333 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Genus of birds}} {{Redirect|Skylark}} {{For-multi|the asteroid (702) Alauda|702 Alauda|the Roman Legion|Legio V Alaudae}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Alauda arvensis 2.jpg | image_caption = [Eurasian skylark](/source/Eurasian_skylark) (''Alauda arvensis'') [[File:Eurasian Skylark (Alauda arvensis) (W1CDR0001421 BD2).ogg|thumb|center|Song of [Eurasian skylark](/source/Eurasian_skylark) ]] | taxon = Alauda | authority = [Linnaeus](/source/Carl_Linnaeus), [1758](/source/10th_edition_of_Systema_Naturae) | type_species = ''Alauda arvensis'' | type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = see text }} '''''Alauda''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [lark](/source/lark)s found across much of Europe, Asia and in the mountains of north Africa, with one species (the [Raso lark](/source/Raso_lark)) [endemic](/source/endemic_(ecology)) to the islet of [Raso](/source/Ilh%C3%A9u_Raso) in the [Cape Verde Islands](/source/Cape_Verde_Islands). At least two additional species are known from the fossil record. The genus name is from Latin ''alauda'', "lark". [Pliny the Elder](/source/Pliny_the_Elder) thought the word was originally of Celtic origin.{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher= Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page = [https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n37 37]}} ==Taxonomy and systematics== The genus ''Alauda'' was introduced by the Swedish naturalist [Carl Linnaeus](/source/Carl_Linnaeus) in 1758 in the [tenth edition](/source/10th_edition_of_Systema_Naturae) of his ''[Systema Naturae](/source/Systema_Naturae)''.{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1| edition=10th | page=165 | publisher=Holmiae:Laurentii Salvii | language=la | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727072 }} The [type species](/source/type_species) was subsequently designated as the [Eurasian skylark](/source/Eurasian_skylark).{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Greenway | editor2-first=James C. Jr | year=1960 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=9 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=65 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14480740 }} The genus ''Alauda'' has four extant and at least two extinct species. Formerly, many other species have also been considered to belong to the genus; Linnaeus originally also included [pipit](/source/pipit)s and the [eastern meadowlark](/source/eastern_meadowlark) in the genus. As the first lark genus described, numerous other larks were also first described as species of ''Alauda'' before being transferred to new genera from the early 19th century onwards. ===Extant species=== The genus contains four species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2018 | title=Nicators, reedling, larks | work=World Bird List Version 8.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/larks/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=15 July 2018 }} {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px || ''Alauda leucoptera'' || [White-winged lark](/source/White-winged_lark) || southern Ukraine through Kazakhstan to south-central Russia |- |120px || ''Alauda razae'' || [Raso lark](/source/Raso_lark)|| Raso islet in the Cape Verde Islands |- |120px || ''Alauda gulgula'' || [Oriental skylark](/source/Oriental_skylark) || southern, central and eastern Asia |- |120px || ''Alauda arvensis'' || [Eurasian skylark](/source/Eurasian_skylark) || across Europe and Asia |- |} ===Extinct species=== * †''Alauda xerarvensis'' (late Pliocene of [Varshets](/source/Varshets), Bulgaria)Boev, Z. 2012. Neogene Larks (Aves: Alaudidae (Vigors, 1825)) from Bulgaria - Acta zoologica bulgarica, 64 (3), 2012: 295-318. * †''Alauda tivadari'' (late Miocene of Polgardi, Hungary)Kessler, E. 2013. Neogene songbirds (Aves, Passeriformes) from Hungary. – Hantkeniana, Budapest, 2013, 8: 37-149. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category|position=left}} {{Passerida|S.|state=collapsed}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q378278}} {{Authority control}} Category:Alauda Category:Bird genera Category:Animal taxa named by Carl Linnaeus --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Alauda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alauda) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alauda?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.