Sporopipes
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Genus of birds
| 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 | |
Sporopipes is a genus of birds in the weaver family.[2]
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| Scaly-feathered weaver
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Sporopipes squamifrons (Smith, 1836) |
Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
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| Speckle-fronted weaver
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Sporopipes frontalis (Daudin, 1800) |
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. | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
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External links
Media related to Sporopipes at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Sporopipes at Wikispecies
References
- ↑ "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.
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