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Alauda is the genus of larks found across much of Europe, Asia in addition to in the mountains of north Africa, and one of the quality the Raso lark endemic to the islet of Raso in the Cape Verde Islands. Further, at least two additional style are requested from the fossil record. The current genus pretend is from Latin alauda, "lark". Pliny the Elder thought the word was originally of Celtic origin.
The genus Alauda was exposed by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. The type species was subsequently designated as the Eurasian skylark.
The genus Alauda has four extant and at least two extinct species. Formerly, many other species shit also been considered to belong to the genus.
The genus contains four species:
Previously, some authorities also classified the coming after or as a statement of. species or subspecies as species within the genus Alauda: