Camaroptera

Camaroptera
Grey-backed camaroptera (Camaroptera brevicaudata)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Cisticolidae
Genus: Camaroptera
Sundevall, 1850
Type species
Camaroptera olivacea[1]
Sundevall, 1850

Camaroptera is a genus of small passerine birds in the family Cisticolidae that are found in sub-Saharan Africa.

The genus was erected by the Swedish zoologist Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1850. The type species is the green-backed camaroptera (Camaroptera brachyura).[2][3] The word Camaroptera comes from the Ancient Greek kamara for "arch" and pteron for "wing".[4]

  1. ^ "Cisticolidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  2. ^ Sundevall, Carl Jakob (1850). "Camaroptera". Öfversigt Af Kongl. Vetenskaps-akademiens Forhandlingar (in Swedish). 7: 103.
  3. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1986). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 11. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. pp. 185–186.
  4. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.