see text Alauda is a genus of larks found across much of Europe, Asia and in the mountains of north Africa, and one of the species (the Raso lark) endemic to the islet of Raso in the Cape Verde Islands.

The current genus name is from Latin alauda, "lark".

[2] The genus Alauda was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.

[3] The type species was subsequently designated as the Eurasian skylark.

[4] The genus Alauda has four extant and at least two extinct species.