Curruca
| Curruca | |
|---|---|
.jpg) | |
| Lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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. | |
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
[edit]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
[edit]The genus contains the following 25 species:[8]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) | Barred warbler | Curruca nisoria | Breeds central Palearctics; winters east Africa |
 | Layard's warbler | Curruca layardi | Southwest Africa |
.jpg) | Banded parisoma | Curruca boehmi | Northeast Africa |
_Tswalu.jpg) | Chestnut-vented warbler | Curruca subcoerulea | South Africa |
.jpg) | Lesser whitethroat | Curruca curruca | Breeds in Palearctic; winters Africa, south Asia, India |
 | Brown parisoma | Curruca lugens | Northeast Africa |
 | Yemen warbler | Curruca buryi | Montane southwest Saudi Arabia and southwest Yemen (southwest Arabian Peninsula) |
 | Arabian warbler | Curruca leucomelaena | Disjunctly from southeast Egypt and northeast Sudan to west, south Arabian Peninsula |
 | Western Orphean warbler | Curruca hortensis | Breeds southwest Europe and northwest Africa; winters west Africa Senegal to Chad |
.jpg) | Eastern Orphean warbler | Curruca crassirostris | Breeds southeast Europe to central Asia; winters northeast Africa to south Arabian Peninsula, south Iran, south Pakistan, India |
 | African desert warbler | Curruca deserti | Morocco to west Libya and Niger |
_(53678154976)_(cropped).jpg) | Asian desert warbler | Curruca nana | Breeds north Iran to Mongolia and northwest China; winters northeast Africa and Asia Minor |
 | Tristram's warbler | Curruca deserticola | Northwest Africa |
 | Menetries's warbler | Curruca mystacea | Breeds central south Palearctic; winters northeast Africa, Arabian Peninsula |
 | Rüppell's warbler | Curruca ruppeli | Breeds south Greece, Crete, Turkey and Syria; winters northeast Africa |
.jpg) | Cyprus warbler | Curruca melanothorax | Breeds Cyprus; winters Egypt, Sudan |
 | Sardinian warbler | Curruca melanocephala | Breeds southwest Palearctic; winters north Africa |
.jpg) | Western subalpine warbler | Curruca iberiae | Breeds Iberia, south France, and extreme northwest Italy. Also northwest Africa from Morocco to Tunisia; winters northwest, west Africa |
 | Moltoni's warbler | Curruca subalpina | Northwest to central north Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, Balearics |
 | Eastern subalpine warbler | Curruca cantillans | Breeds northeast Italy through southeast Europe to west Turkey. Also south Italy and Sicily; winters north Africa |
 | Common whitethroat | Curruca communis | Breeds Palearctic; winters Africa |
 | Spectacled warbler | Curruca conspicillata | Breeds southwest Palearctic; winters northwest, north Africa |
 | Marmora's warbler | Curruca sarda | Breeds Mediterranean Islands; winters northwest Africa |
 | Dartford warbler | Curruca undata | Southwest Palearctic |
 | Balearic warbler | Curruca balearica | Balearic Islands |
References
[edit]- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Lepage, Denis. "Avibase - The World Bird Database". Retrieved 17 May 2022.
- ↑ 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.