Mayrimunia | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Estrildidae |
Genus: |
Mayrimunia Wolters, 1949 |
Type species | |
Lonchura tristissima ( streak-headed mannikin)
Wallace, 1865
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Mayrimunia is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae that are endemic to New Guinea.
The genus was introduced in 1949 by the German ornithologist Hans Edmund Wolters with the streak-headed mannikin as the type species. [1] [2] The name was chosen to honour the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr and combines his name with the genus Munia. [3]
The two species now placed in genus were formerly placed in the genus Lonchura. They were moved to this resurrected genus based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020. [4]
The genus contains two species: [5]
Mayrimunia | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Estrildidae |
Genus: |
Mayrimunia Wolters, 1949 |
Type species | |
Lonchura tristissima ( streak-headed mannikin)
Wallace, 1865
|
Mayrimunia is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae that are endemic to New Guinea.
The genus was introduced in 1949 by the German ornithologist Hans Edmund Wolters with the streak-headed mannikin as the type species. [1] [2] The name was chosen to honour the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr and combines his name with the genus Munia. [3]
The two species now placed in genus were formerly placed in the genus Lonchura. They were moved to this resurrected genus based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020. [4]
The genus contains two species: [5]