Maghreb lark

Species of bird

Maghreb lark

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Aves
Order:  | Passeriformes
Family:  | Alaudidae
Genus:  | Galerida
Species:  |

G. macrorhyncha

Binomial name
Galerida macrorhyncha

Tristram, 1859

Subspecies

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The Maghreb lark (Galerida macrorhyncha) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae found in the Maghreb desert of north-western Africa.

## Taxonomy and systematics

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The Maghreb lark was previously considered to be a subspecies of the crested lark. Clements lumps this bird into the crested lark. It was proved to have diverged genetically from the latter species 1.9 million years ago was accepted as a separate species in 2009.[1] Alban Guillaumet and colleagues noted the distinctiveness of populations from the Maghreb - birds in the dryer parts of Morocco and Tunisia had longer bills while those in more coastal northern parts had shorter bills typical of the European subspecies. The authors sampled the mitochondrial DNA and found they were distinct genetically.[2] The species name is derived from the Ancient Greek words makros "long" and rhynchos "bill".

### Subspecies

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Two subspecies are recognized:[3]

* Hauts Plateaux Maghreb lark (G. m. randonii) - Loche, 1860: Originally described as a separate species. Found in eastern Morocco and north-western Algeria
* North-west Saharan Maghreb lark (G. m. macrorhyncha) or Long-billed Maghreb lark \- Tristram, 1859: Found in southern Morocco and western Algeria to west-central Mauritania

Syntypes of Galerida macrorhyncha Tristram (NML-VZ T17849 & NML-VZ T17850) held at World Museum, National Museums Liverpool

Two syntypes of Galerida macrorhyncha Tristram (Ibis, 1859, p.57), an adult male and adult female, are held in the vertebrate zoology collection of National Museums Liverpool at World Museum, with accession numbers NML-VZ T17849 & ML-VZ T17850.[4] The specimens were collected in Laghouat, Sahara, Algeria on 11–12 November 1856 by H. B. Tristram. The specimen came to the Liverpool national collection through the purchase of Canon Henry Baker Tristram's collection by the museum in 1896.[5]

## References

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Galerida macrorhyncha.

Wikispecies has information related to Galerida macrorhyncha.

1. ^ "Species Version 2 « IOC World Bird List". www.worldbirdnames.org. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
2. ^ Guillaumet, Alban; Pons, Jean-Marc; Godelle, Bernard; Crochet, Pierre-Andre (2006). "History of the Crested Lark in the Mediterranean region as revealed by mtDNA sequences and morphology". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 39 (3): 645–56\. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.01.002. PMID 16473529.
3. ^ "IOC World Bird List 6.4". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.6.4.
4. ^ "Vertebrate Zoology". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
5. ^ R. Wagstaffe (1978-12-01). Type Specimens of Birds in the Merseyside County Museums (formerly City of Liverpool Museums).

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Larks (Family: Alaudidae)

Genus|

Species

Alaemon|

* Greater hoopoe-lark
* Lesser hoopoe-lark

Chersomanes|

* Beesley's lark
* Spike-heeled lark

Ammomanopsis|

* Gray's lark

Certhilauda|

* Short-clawed lark
* Karoo long-billed lark
* Benguela long-billed lark
* Eastern long-billed lark
* Cape long-billed lark
* Agulhas long-billed lark

Pinarocorys|

* Dusky lark
* Rufous-rumped lark

Ramphocoris|

* Thick-billed lark

Ammomanes|

* Desert lark
* Bar-tailed lark
* Rufous-tailed lark

Eremopterix|

* Black-eared sparrow-lark
* Madagascar lark
* Black-crowned sparrow-lark
* Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark
* Ashy-crowned sparrow-lark
* Chestnut-headed sparrow-lark
* Grey-backed sparrow-lark
* Fischer's sparrow-lark

Calendulauda|

* Sabota lark
* Pink-breasted lark
* Foxy lark
* Fawn-coloured lark
* Karoo lark
* Red lark
* Dune lark
* Barlow's lark

Heteromirafra|

* Rudd's lark
* Archer's lark

Mirafra|

* Eastern clapper lark
* Cape clapper lark
* Red-winged lark
* Rufous-naped lark
* Flappet lark
* Angola lark
* Williams's lark
* Monotonous lark
* Melodious lark
* Horsfield's bush lark
* Singing bush lark
* Burmese bush lark
* Bengal bush lark
* Indochinese bush lark
* Indian bush lark
* Jerdon's bush lark
* Gillett's lark (Degodi lark)
* Rusty bush lark
* Collared lark
* Ash's lark
* Somali lark
* Friedmann's lark
* Kordofan lark
* White-tailed lark

Lullula|

* Woodlark

Spizocorys|

* Obbia lark
* Sclater's lark
* Stark's lark
* Short-tailed lark
* Masked lark
* Botha's lark
* Pink-billed lark

Alauda|

* White-winged lark
* Raso lark
* Oriental skylark
* Eurasian skylark

Galerida|

* Sykes's lark
* Sun lark
* Large-billed lark
* Thekla's lark
* Crested lark
* Malabar lark
* Maghreb lark

Eremophila|

* Horned lark
* Temminck's lark

Calandrella|

* Hume's short-toed lark
* Mongolian short-toed lark
* Erlanger's lark
* Blanford's lark
* Red-capped lark
* Greater short-toed lark

Melanocorypha|

* Bimaculated lark
* Calandra lark
* Black lark
* Mongolian lark
* Tibetan lark

Chersophilus|

* Dupont's lark

Eremalauda|

* Dunn's lark
* Arabian lark

Alaudala|

* Athi short-toed lark
* Asian short-toed lark
* Somali short-toed lark
* Mediterranean short-toed lark
* Turkestan short-toed lark
* Sand lark

Taxon identifiers

Galerida macrorhyncha|

* Wikidata: Q12258128
* Wikispecies: Galerida macrorhyncha
* BOW: crelar3
* CoL: 3F4BJ
* eBird: crelar3
* GBIF: 6100966
* iNaturalist: 558525
* ITIS: 916564
* NCBI: 1365146
* Observation.org: 199175
* Open Tree of Life: 3597506
* Xeno-canto: Galerida-macrorhyncha

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