Iduna (genus)

Iduna

Sykes's warbler
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Aves
Order:  | Passeriformes
Family:  | Acrocephalidae
Genus:  | Iduna
Keyserling and Blasius, 1840

Iduna is a genus of tree warbler in the Acrocephalidae family. Keyserling and Blasius gave no explanation of the genus name Iduna.[1] It is sometimes lumped in the genus Hippolais, although in 2009 it was found to belong to the Iduna clade.[2]

It contains the following species:

* Thick-billed warbler (Iduna aedon)
* African yellow warbler (Iduna natalensis)
* Mountain yellow warbler (Iduna similis)
* Booted warbler (Iduna caligata)
* Sykes's warbler (Iduna rama)
* Eastern olivaceous warbler (Iduna pallida)
* Western olivaceous warbler (Iduna opaca)

## References

1. ↑ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
2. ↑ Silke Fregin; Martin Haase; Urban Olsson; Per Alström (2009). "Multi-locus phylogeny of the family Acrocephalidae (Aves: Passeriformes) – The traditional taxonomy overthrown". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52 (3): 866–878. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.04.006. PMID 19393746.

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