Curruca

Short description: Genus of birds

Curruca

Lesser whitethroat (Curruca curruca)
Scientific classification
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Bechstein, 1802
Type species
Motacilla curruca

Linnaeus, 1758

Species

Many, see text

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.[1][2][3] The name Curruca is the Latin word for an unidentified small bird mentioned by the Roman poet Juvenal.[4] The genus was split from Sylvia in the Howard and Moore Checklist in 2014 after a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2011.[5] The split is now recognised by most modern authorities.[6]

## Species

The genus contains 25 species:[7]

* 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

1. ↑ Bechstein, Johann Matthäus (1802) (in German). Ornithologisches Taschenbuch von und für Deutschland, oder, Kurze Beschreibung aller Vögel Deutschlands für Liebhaber dieses Theils der Naturgeschichte. Leipzig: Carl Friedrich Enoch Richter. p. 165. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41098775.
2. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds (1986). Check-List of Birds of the World. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 270. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14483971.
3. ↑ The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. 2014. p. 510. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
4. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
5. ↑ 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. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-163. PMID 21672229.
6. ↑ Lepage, Denis. "Avibase - The World Bird Database". https://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/.
7. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (January 2021). "Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/sylvias/.

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