| Camaroptera | |
|---|---|
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| Grey-backed camaroptera (Camaroptera brevicaudata) | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Cisticolidae |
| Genus: | Camaroptera Sundevall, 1850 |
| Type species | |
| Camaroptera olivacea[1] Sundevall, 1850 | |
Camaroptera is agenus of smallpasserine birds in the familyCisticolidae that are found insub-Saharan Africa.
The genus was erected by the Swedish zoologistCarl Jakob Sundevall in 1850. Thetype species is thegreen-backed camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura).[2][3] Thegenus nameCamaroptera comes fromAncient Greek καμαρα (kamara), meaning "arch", and πτερόν (pterón), meaning "wing".[4]
The genus contains the following five species:[5]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
.jpg) | Green-backed camaroptera | Camaroptera brachyura | Zambia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania |
.jpg) | Grey-backed camaroptera | Camaroptera brevicaudata | Africa south of the Sahara Desert. |
 | Hartert's camaroptera | Camaroptera harterti | Angola. |
.jpg) | Yellow-browed camaroptera | Camaroptera superciliaris | Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Uganda. |
 | Olive-green camaroptera | Camaroptera chloronota | Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. |
Molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that the green-backed and the grey-backed camaroptera are closely related,[6][7][8] and some taxonomists treat them asconspecific.[9]
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