Species of bird
Thesentinel lark (Corypha athi) is a species oflark in the familyAlaudidae found inKenya andTanzania. It was formerly treated as asubspecies of therufous-naped lark.
The sentinel lark wasformally described in 1900 by the German ornithologistErnst Hartert based on a specimen collected on the plains of theAthi River in Kenya. He considered it to be asubspecies of therufous-naped lark and coined thetrinomial nameMirafra africana athi.[1][2] The sentinel lark is now treated as a separate species and placed in the genusCorypha. This placement is based on the results of twomolecular phylogenetic studies by a team of ornithologists led byPer Alström that were published in 2023 and 2024.[3][4][5]
Two subspecies are recognised:[5]
- C. a. athi (Hartert, EJO, 1900) – central Kenya to northeast Tanzania
- C. a. harterti (Neumann, 1908) – central south Kenya
- ^Hartert, Ernst (1900)."Another small contribution to African ornithology".Novitates Zoologicae.7: 25-53 [46].
- ^Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960).Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 10.
- ^Alström, P.; Mohammadi, Z.; Enbody, E.D.; Irestedt, M.; Engelbrecht, D.; Crochet, P.-A.; Guillaumet, A.; Rancilhac, L.; Tieleman, B.I.; Olsson, U.; Donald, P.F.; Stervander, M. (2023)."Systematics of the avian family Alaudidae using multilocus and genomic data".Avian Research.14 100095.doi:10.1016/j.avrs.2023.100095.hdl:11370/bca6ef93-5fe0-40f0-8354-558e15c425fd.
- ^Alström, P.; Mohammadi, Z.; Donald, P.F.; Nymark, M.; Enbody, E.D.; Irestedt, M.; Elisha, E.B.; Ndithia, H.K.; Tieleman, B.I.; Engelbrecht, D.; Olsson, U.; Rancilhac, L.; Stervander, M. (2024). "Integrative taxonomy reveals unrecognised species diversity in AfricanCorypha larks (Aves: Alaudidae)".Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.200 (4):1080–1108.doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad107.hdl:11370/4223d673-4ece-4b55-8be0-2bca4784c33c.
- ^abGill, Frank; Donsker, David;Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024)."Nicators, Bearded Reedling, larks".IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved12 September 2024.
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