Calamanthus
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| Calamanthus | |
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| Striated fieldwren (Calamanthus fuliginosus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Acanthizidae |
| Genus: | Calamanthus Gould, 1838 |
| Type species | |
| Praticola anthoides Swainson, 1837=Anthus fuliginosus Vigors & Horsfield, 1827[1] | |
Calamanthus is a genus of bird in the family Acanthizidae.
The genus Calamanthus was introduced in 1838 by the English ornithologist John Gould [2] as a replacement name for Praticola that had been introduced in 1837 by William Swainson to accommodate Praticola anthoides Swainson, a junior synonym of Anthus fuliginosus Vigors and Horsfield, the striated fieldwren.[3][4] The name Praticola was pre-occupied as it had previous been introduced in 1829 by the German naturalist Johann Jakob Kaup.[4][5] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek καλαμαια/kalamaia meaning "grasshopper" with the genus Anthus Bechstein, 1805.[6]
A poorly researched genus, the alliance has been recognised as a single species treatment (Schodde, 1975) and later two species or provisionally three separate species.[7] Birds of the World: Recommended English Names lists the following three species:[8]
| Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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.jpg) | rufous fieldwren | Calamanthus campestris | Australia. |
_(8079660765).jpg) | striated fieldwren | Calamanthus fuliginosus | Australia. |
 | Western fieldwren | Calamanthus montanellus | Australia. |
References
- ↑ "Acanthizidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ↑ Gould, John (1838). A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia, and the Adjacent Islands. London: self. Part 4, Appendix p. 4.
- ↑ Swainson, William (1837). On the Natural History and Classification of Birds. Vol. 2. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman and John Taylor. p. 243.
- 1 2 Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 427.
- ↑ Kaup, Johann Jakob (1829). Skizzirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte und natürliches System der europäischen Thierwelt (in German). Darmstadt: Carl Wilhelm Leske. pp. 114, 191.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. "Calamanthus". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 12 September 2025.
- ↑ Christidis, Les; Boles, Walter E. (2008). Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds. Csiro Publishing. pp. 161–62. ISBN 978-0-643-06511-6.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers". World Bird List Version 9.1. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
Further reading
- Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (editors). (2006). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 12: Picathartes to Tits and Chickadees. Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-84-96553-42-2
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