Camaroptera information

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

^ "Cisticolidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
^ Sundevall, Carl Jakob (1850). "Camaroptera". Öfversigt Af Kongl. Vetenskaps-akademiens Forhandlingar (in Swedish). 7: 103.
^ 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.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

[HM4-1] "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.

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Camaroptera

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