Granatina
Granatina | |
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Violet-eared waxbill (Granatina granatina) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Estrildidae |
Genus: | Granatina Sharpe, 1890 |
Type species | |
Fringilla granatina violet-eared waxbill Linnaeus, 1766
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Granatina is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae that are found in Africa.
Taxonomy[edit]
The genus was introduced in 1890 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe with the type species (by tautonomy) as the violet-eared waxbill (Fringilla granatina Linnaeus, 1766).[1]
The two species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in Uraeginthus. The genus Granatina was resurrected based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020 that found that these species were deeply divergent from the other species in Uraeginthus.[2][3]
Species[edit]
The genus contains the following two species:[3]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Granatina granatina | Violet-eared waxbill | Southern Africa | |
Granatina ianthinogaster | Purple grenadier | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda |
References[edit]
- ^ Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1890). Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Sturnformes. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. 13. London: Trustees of the British Museum. p. 403.
- ^ Olsson, Urban; Alström, Per (2020). "A comprehensive phylogeny and taxonomic evaluation of the waxbills (Aves: Estrildidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 146: 106757. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106757. PMID 32028027.
- ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 13 July 2021.