Iduna (bird)

Iduna
	Sykes's warbler (Iduna rama)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Acrocephalidae
Genus:	Iduna; Keyserling and Blasius, 1840

Iduna is a genus of tree warbler in the family Acrocephalidae. Keyserling and Blasius gave no explanation of the genus name Iduna.[1] It is sometimes lumped in the genus Hippolais, although in 2009 it was found to belong to the Iduna clade.[2]

It contains the following species:

African yellow warbler (Iduna natalensis)
Mountain yellow warbler (Iduna similis)
Booted warbler (Iduna caligata)
Sykes's warbler (Iduna rama)
Eastern olivaceous warbler (Iduna pallida)
Western olivaceous warbler (Iduna opaca)

References

Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
Silke Fregin; Martin Haase; Urban Olsson; Per Alström (2009). "Multi-locus phylogeny of the family Acrocephalidae (Aves: Passeriformes) – The traditional taxonomy overthrown". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52 (3): 866–878. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.04.006. PMID 19393746.

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[job-1] Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

[2] Silke Fregin; Martin Haase; Urban Olsson; Per Alström (2009). "Multi-locus phylogeny of the family Acrocephalidae (Aves: Passeriformes) – The traditional taxonomy overthrown". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52 (3): 866–878. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.04.006. PMID 19393746.