Curruca
| Curruca | |
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| Lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Sylviidae |
| Genus: | Curruca Bechstein, 1802 |
| Type species | |
| Motacilla curruca Linnaeus, 1758
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| Species | |
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Many, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Parisoma Swainson 1832. | |
Curruca is a genus of Sylviid warblers, best represented in
Sylvia
.
Taxonomy
The genus Curruca was introduced by the German naturalist
molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011.[6] The split is now recognised by most modern authorities.[7]
Species
The genus contains 25 species:[8]
- Barred warbler, Curruca nisoria
- Layard's warbler, Curruca layardi
- Banded parisoma, Curruca boehmi
- Chestnut-vented warbler, Curruca subcoerulea
- Lesser whitethroat, Curruca curruca
- Brown parisoma, Curruca lugens
- Yemen warbler, Curruca buryi
- Arabian warbler, Curruca leucomelaena
- Western Orphean warbler, Curruca hortensis
- Eastern Orphean warbler, Curruca crassirostris
- African desert warbler, Curruca deserti
- Asian desert warbler, Curruca nana
- Tristram's warbler, Curruca deserticola
- Menetries's warbler, Curruca mystacea
- Rüppell's warbler, Curruca ruppeli
- Cyprus warbler, Curruca melanothorax
- Sardinian warbler, Curruca melanocephala
- Western subalpine warbler, Curruca iberiae
- Moltoni's warbler, Curruca subalpina
- Eastern subalpine warbler, Curruca cantillans
- Common whitethroat, Curruca communis
- Spectacled warbler, Curruca conspicillata
- Marmora's warbler, Curruca sarda
- Dartford warbler, Curruca undata
- Balearic warbler, Curruca balearica
References
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 270.
- ^ Bechstein, Johann Matthäus (1802). Ornithologisches Taschenbuch von und für Deutschland, oder, Kurze Beschreibung aller Vögel Deutschlands für Liebhaber dieses Theils der Naturgeschichte (in German). Leipzig: Carl Friedrich Enoch Richter. p. 165.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 270.
- ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
- ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- PMID 21672229.
- ^ Lepage, Denis. "Avibase - The World Bird Database". Retrieved 17 May 2022.
- Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 June 2021.