Firefinch
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| Firefinches | |
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| File:Firefinch-Senegal-2007.jpg | |
| Red-billed firefinch (Lagonosticta senegala) | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Estrildidae |
| Subfamily: | Estrildidae |
| Genus: | Lagonosticta Cabanis, 1851 |
| Type species | |
| Fringilla rubricata[1] M.H.C. Lichtenstein, 1823
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| Species | |
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The firefinches form a genus, Lagonosticta, of small seed-eating African birds in the family Estrildidae. The genus was introduced by the German ornithologists Jean Cabanis in 1851.[2] The type species was subsequently designated as the African firefinch.[3] The name combines the Ancient Greek words lagōn "flank" and stiktos "spotted".[4] The genus Lagonosticta is sister to the brown twinspot which is placed in its own genus Clytospiza.[5]
Species
The genus contains 10 species:[6]
| Image | Common Name | Scientific name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| File:Red-billed firefinch (Lagonosticta senegala senegala) male.jpg | Red-billed firefinch | Lagonosticta senegala | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Angola, Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, Gambia, Cameroon, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia |
| File:Firefinch African 2017 07 02 11 45 37 0106c.jpg | African firefinch | Lagonosticta rubricata | Senegal east to Ethiopia then south to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania south through Mozambique to the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. |
| File:Jameson's Firefinch (Lagonosticta rhodopareia).jpg | Jameson's firefinch | Lagonosticta rhodopareia | Angola, Botswana, Chad, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe |
| Mali firefinch | Lagonosticta virata | Western Africa | |
| File:Rock Firefinch (Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis), crop.jpg | Rock firefinch | Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis | central Nigeria |
| File:Chad Firefinch, Poli, Cameroon (5891148921).jpg | Chad firefinch | Lagonosticta umbrinodorsalis | southwest Chad where it is fairly common and northeast Cameroon |
| File:Black-bellied Firefinch.JPG | Black-bellied firefinch | Lagonosticta rara | Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo and Uganda |
| File:Bar-breasted Firefinch fem - Kakum - Ghana S4E2515 (22595258119).jpg | Bar-breasted firefinch | Lagonosticta rufopicta | Gambia and southern Senegal east to western Uganda and eastern Kenya |
| File:Brown Firefinch, Garneton, Kitwe, Zambia (16410046988).jpg | Brown firefinch | Lagonosticta nitidula | Angola, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, southern Tanzania and northern areas of Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe |
| File:Lagonosticta larvata.jpg | Black-faced firefinch | Lagonosticta larvata | Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo and Uganda |
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References
- ↑ "Estrildidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ↑ Cabanis, Jean; Heine, Ferdinand (1860). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 171.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1968). Check-list of birds of the world. Vol. 14. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 325.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 217. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ↑ Olsson, Urban; Alström, Per (2020). "A comprehensive phylogeny and taxonomic evaluation of the waxbills (Aves: Estrildidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 146: 106757. Bibcode:2020MolPE.14606757O. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106757. PMID 32028027.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 10 February 2023.
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