Biology:Sporopipes
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Short description: Genus of birds
| Sporopipes | |
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| Speckle-fronted weaver (Sporopipes frontalis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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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Sporopipes is a genus of birds in the weaver family.[2] It contains these species:
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
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Sporopipes squamifrons | Scaly-feathered weaver | Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. |
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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
References
- ↑ "Ploceidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=190.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2018). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers". World Bird List Version 8.2. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/weavers/. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
Wikidata ☰ Q1061231 entry
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