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Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class (biology), class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the Oviparity, laying of Eggshell, hard-shelled eggs, a high Metabolism, metabolic rate, a fou ...
genus ''Eremophila'' comprises the two horned larks.
Taxonomy and systematics
The current genus name is from
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...
''eremos'', "desert", and ''phileo'', "to love".
Extant species
Extinct species
There is at least one fossil species included in this genus:
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Eremophila orkhonensis
''Eremophila'' may refer to:
* ''Eremophila'' (bird), the horned larks
* ''Eremophila'' (plant), a plant genus of the family Scrophulariaceae
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