Granatina
Genus of birds
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Granatina is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae that are found in Africa.
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| Granatina | |
|---|---|
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| Violet-eared waxbill (Granatina granatina) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Estrildidae |
| Genus: | Granatina Sharpe, 1890 |
| Type species | |
| Fringilla granatina violet-eared waxbill Linnaeus, 1766 | |
Taxonomy
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
The genus contains the following two species:[3]
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
_(17000645472)_(cropped).jpg) | Granatina granatina | Violet-eared waxbill | Southern Africa |
 | Granatina ianthinogaster | Purple grenadier | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda |
