Biology:Anaplectes
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Short description: Genus of birds
| Anaplectes | |
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| Male red-headed weaver (Anaplectes rubriceps) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Ploceidae |
| Genus: | Anaplectes Reichenbach, 1863 |
| Type species | |
| Ploceus melanotis[1] = Ploceus leuconotus Lafresnaye, 1840
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Anaplectes is a genus of African birds in the weaver family Ploceidae.
Taxonomy
The genus Anaplectes was introduced in 1863 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach.[2] The type species was subsequently designated by Richard Bowdler Sharpe as Ploceus leuconotus Müller, JW 1851, now a subspecies of the red-headed weaver (Anaplectes rubriceps).[3][4]
The genus contains the following two species:[5]
- Red-headed weaver Anaplectes rubriceps
- Red weaver Anaplectes jubaensis
References
- ↑ "Ploceidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=190.
- ↑ Reichenbach, Ludwig (1863) (in German). Die Singvögel als Fortsetzung de vollständigsten Naturgeschichte und zugleich als Central-Atlas für zoologische Gärten und für Thierfreunde. Ein durch zahlreiche illuminirte Abbildungen illustrirtes Handbuch zur richtigten Bestimmung und Pflege der Thiere aller Classen. 4. Dresden and Leipzig: Expedition Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. p. 86. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13523332.
- ↑ 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. 13. London: Trustees of the British Museum. p. 411. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8328353.
- ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds (1962). Check-List of Birds of the World. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 57. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14485430.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (January 2023). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/weavers/. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
Wikidata ☰ Q10733490 entry
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