Sporopipes is a genus of birds in the weaver family.[2] It contains these species:
Sporopipes | |
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Speckle-fronted weaver (Sporopipes frontalis) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Ploceidae |
Genus: | Sporopipes Cabanis, 1847 |
Type species | |
Fringilla lepidoptera[1] M.H.C. Lichtenstein, 1842
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Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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Sporopipes squamifrons | Scaly-feathered weaver | Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. | |
Sporopipes frontalis | Speckle-fronted weaver | Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. |
External links
edit- Media related to Sporopipes at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Sporopipes at Wikispecies
References
edit- ^ "Ploceidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers". World Bird List Version 8.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 November 2018.