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Curruca
Lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Sylviidae
Genus: Curruca
Bechstein, 1802
Type species
Motacilla curruca
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

Many, see text

Synonyms

Parisoma Swainson 1832.
type Sylvia subcaerulea Vieillot.[1]

Curruca is a genus of Sylviid warblers, best represented in Europe, Africa, and Asia. All of these species were formerly placed in the genus Sylvia.

Taxonomy

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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.[2][3][4] The name Curruca is the Latin word for an unidentified small bird mentioned by the Roman poet Juvenal.[5] The genus was split from Sylvia in the Howard and Moore Checklist in 2014 after a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011.[6] The split is now recognised by most modern authorities.[7]

Species

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The genus contains the following 25 species:[8]

ImageCommon nameScientific nameDistribution
Barred warblerCurruca nisoriaBreeds central Palearctics; winters east Africa
Layard's warblerCurruca layardiSouthwest Africa
Banded parisomaCurruca boehmiNortheast Africa
Chestnut-vented warblerCurruca subcoeruleaSouth Africa
Lesser whitethroatCurruca currucaBreeds in Palearctic; winters Africa, south Asia, India
Brown parisomaCurruca lugensNortheast Africa
Yemen warblerCurruca buryiMontane southwest Saudi Arabia and southwest Yemen (southwest Arabian Peninsula)
Arabian warblerCurruca leucomelaenaDisjunctly from southeast Egypt and northeast Sudan to west, south Arabian Peninsula
Western Orphean warblerCurruca hortensisBreeds southwest Europe and northwest Africa; winters west Africa Senegal to Chad
Eastern Orphean warblerCurruca crassirostrisBreeds southeast Europe to central Asia; winters northeast Africa to south Arabian Peninsula, south Iran, south Pakistan, India
African desert warblerCurruca desertiMorocco to west Libya and Niger
Asian desert warblerCurruca nanaBreeds north Iran to Mongolia and northwest China; winters northeast Africa and Asia Minor
Tristram's warblerCurruca deserticolaNorthwest Africa
Menetries's warblerCurruca mystaceaBreeds central south Palearctic; winters northeast Africa, Arabian Peninsula
Rüppell's warblerCurruca ruppeliBreeds south Greece, Crete, Turkey and Syria; winters northeast Africa
Cyprus warblerCurruca melanothoraxBreeds Cyprus; winters Egypt, Sudan
Sardinian warblerCurruca melanocephalaBreeds southwest Palearctic; winters north Africa
Western subalpine warblerCurruca iberiaeBreeds Iberia, south France, and extreme northwest Italy. Also northwest Africa from Morocco to Tunisia; winters northwest, west Africa
Moltoni's warblerCurruca subalpinaNorthwest to central north Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, Balearics
Eastern subalpine warblerCurruca cantillansBreeds northeast Italy through southeast Europe to west Turkey. Also south Italy and Sicily; winters north Africa
Common whitethroatCurruca communisBreeds Palearctic; winters Africa
Spectacled warblerCurruca conspicillataBreeds southwest Palearctic; winters northwest, north Africa
Marmora's warblerCurruca sardaBreeds Mediterranean Islands; winters northwest Africa
Dartford warblerCurruca undataSouthwest Palearctic
Balearic warblerCurruca balearicaBalearic Islands

References

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  1. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 270.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 270.
  4. ↑ Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 510. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
  5. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  6. ↑ Voelker, Gary; Light, Jessica E. (2011). "Palaeoclimatic events, dispersal and migratory losses along the Afro-European axis as drivers of biogeographic distribution in Sylvia warblers". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11 (163): 163. Bibcode:2011BMCEE..11..163V. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-163. PMC 3123607. PMID 21672229.
  7. ↑ Lepage, Denis. "Avibase - The World Bird Database". Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  8. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 17 June 2021.