Curruca

GENUS

1. KingdomAnimalia
2. PhylumChordata
3. ClassAves
4. OrderPasseriformes
5. FamilySylviidae

Observations recorded1,130,177

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 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 The genus contains 27 species:[8] Barred warbler, Curruca nisoria Layard's warbler, Curruca layardi Banded parisoma, Curruca boehmi Chestnut-vented warbler, Curruca subcoerulea Desert whitethroat, Curruca minula Lesser whitethroat, Curruca curruca Hume's whitethroat, Curruca althaea 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 w

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Lesser Whitethroat (Sylvia curruca) (50383115458) (cropped).jpg

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