Coccopygia | |
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Swee waxbill (Coccopygia melanotis) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Estrildidae |
Subfamily: | Estrildidae |
Genus: |
Coccopygia Reichenbach, 1862 |
Type species | |
Fringilla melanotis swee waxbill
Temminck, 1823
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Species | |
Coccopygia quartinia |
Coccopygia, is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across central and southern Africa.
The genus Coccopygia was introduced in 1862 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. [1] The name combines the Ancient Greek kokkos meaning "scarlet" with -pugios meaning "-rumped". [2] The type species was designated as the swee waxbill by Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1890. [3] [4] The genus Coccopygia is sister to the olivebacks in the genus Nesocharis. [5]
The genus contains three species: [6]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Coccopygia quartinia | Yellow-bellied waxbill | East Africa |
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Coccopygia melanotis | Swee waxbill | Southern Africa |
Coccopygia bocagei | Angola waxbill | Angola |
Coccopygia | |
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Swee waxbill (Coccopygia melanotis) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Estrildidae |
Subfamily: | Estrildidae |
Genus: |
Coccopygia Reichenbach, 1862 |
Type species | |
Fringilla melanotis swee waxbill
Temminck, 1823
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Species | |
Coccopygia quartinia |
Coccopygia, is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across central and southern Africa.
The genus Coccopygia was introduced in 1862 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. [1] The name combines the Ancient Greek kokkos meaning "scarlet" with -pugios meaning "-rumped". [2] The type species was designated as the swee waxbill by Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1890. [3] [4] The genus Coccopygia is sister to the olivebacks in the genus Nesocharis. [5]
The genus contains three species: [6]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Coccopygia quartinia | Yellow-bellied waxbill | East Africa |
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Coccopygia melanotis | Swee waxbill | Southern Africa |
Coccopygia bocagei | Angola waxbill | Angola |