Biology:Vieillot's black weaver

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Short description: Species of bird

Vieillot's black weaver
Vieillot's black weaver (Ploceus nigerrimus nigerrimus).jpg
Male in Uganda
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Ploceidae
Genus: Ploceus
Species:
P. nigerrimus
Binomial name
Ploceus nigerrimus
Vieillot, 1819

Vieillot's black weaver (Ploceus nigerrimus) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is found in southern Nigeria to Uganda, west Kenya, Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The common name is after the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot.[2]

This species was formerly considered to be conspecific with chestnut-and-black weaver (Ploceus castaneofuscus). The species were split based on the striking differences in the colour of the plumage.[3][4]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Ploceus nigerrimus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T103812246A94602765. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103812246A94602765.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/103812246/94602765. Retrieved 12 November 2021. 
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael (2003). Whose Bird? Men and Women Commemorated in the Common Names of Birds. London: Christopher Helm. p. 352. 
  3. 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. 
  4. Craig, A.J.F.; del Hoyo, J.; Collar, N.; Kirwan, G.M. (2022). Billerman, S.M.; Sly, N.D.. eds. "Vieillot's Black Weaver (Ploceus nigerrimus), version 1.0". Birds of the World (Ithaca, NY, USA: Cornell Lab of Ornithology). doi:10.2173/bow.viewea3.01. 

External links


Wikidata ☰ Q639676 entry