• Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Sylviida: Alaudoidea
• Distribution: Old World, Wallacea and Australia
• Number of extant genera: 24
• Number of extant species: 98

Traditional genus-level classification of extant Alaudidae following the AviList checklist v2025. (link) The number of subspecies is given in parentheses. The phylogenetic arrangement is based on Alström et al. (2023), and matches that of the BOW Phylogeny Explorer tree v1.6. (link)

References [annotated]

Alström P, Mohammadi Z, Enbody ED, Irestedt M, Engelbrecht D, Crochet PA, Guillaumet A, Rancilhac L, Tieleman BI, Olsson U, Donald PF, and Stervander M (2023), Systematics of the avian family Alaudidae using multilocus and genomic data, Avian Res. 14, e:100095. (view pdf) [note: provided species-level phylogeny and revised taxonomy of Alaudidae; recognised 11 Corypha species]

Alström P, Mohammadi Z, Donald PF, Nymark M, Enbody ED, Irestedt M, Barde Elisha E, Ndithia HK, Tieleman BI, Engelbrecht D, Olsson U, Rancilhac L, and Stervander M (2024), Integrative taxonomy reveals unrecognised species diversity in African Corypha larks (Aves: Alaudidae), Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 200, 1080-1108. (free pdf) [note: proposed the recognition of nine Corypha species]

Liu Z, Colombo S, Rancilhac L, Shafaeipour A, Haghani A, Tieleman BI, Crochet PA, Guillaumet A, Olsson U, and Alström P (2025), Weak nuclear divergence despite pronounced mitochondrial divergence within a widepsread desert-inhabiting Palearctic lark (Aves: Alaudidae), Zool. Scr. 55, 389-404. (free pdf) [focal taxon: Ammomanes]

Stervander M, Hansson B, Olsson U, Hulme MF, Ottosson U, and Alström P (2020), Molecular species delimitation of larks (Aves: Alaudidae), and integrative taxonomy of the genus Calandrella, with the description of a range-restricted African relic taxon, Diversity 12, e:428. (free pdf) [note: studied most alaudid genera]