Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Megaclass Tetrapoda > Superclass Reptilia > Class Aves > Subclass Passerae > Superorder Passerimorphae > Order Passeriformes > Suborder Passeri > Superfamily Alaudoidea > Family Alaudidae > Genus Alaemon

Alaemon alaudipes (Desfontaines, 1789)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Alaemon*	Keyserling & Blasius, 1840	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Upupa alaudipes*	Desfontaines, 1789	objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: witbandleeuwerik sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

English: greater hoopoe-lark; hoopoe-lark sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Keith, S., E.K. Urban &Fry, C. H. (1992). The Birds of Africa, Volume IV. Academic Press, London.

French: sirli du désert sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

German: Wüstenläuferlerche sources: Avibase - the world bird database.

Hebrew: אלימון sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Lithuanian: margasparnis kukutinis vieversys sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Polish: skowron pustynny sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Russian: большой удодовый жаворонок sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Slovenian: srpasti škrjanec sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: alondra ibis sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Turkish: hüthüt toygarı

Literature

basis of record	Keith, S., E.K. Urban &Fry, C. H. (1992). The Birds of Africa, Volume IV. Academic Press, London.

Genbank

Citation

WoRMS (2025). Alaemon alaudipes (Desfontaines, 1789). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212745

Drs. Cees Roselaar. Alaemon alaudipes (Desfontaines, 1789). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/a745aef1-b9ec-4318-9525-7e20c0d78f4a

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Occurrence

No data

Environment

not marine, not brackish, terrestrial

Importance

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212745
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:97386

Last modified

2011-04-08 by Drs. Cees Roselaar & by Peter Adriaens

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