| Firefinches | |
|---|---|
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| Red-billed firefinch (Lagonosticta senegala) | |
Scientific 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 | |
| Species | |
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11, see text | |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
_male.jpg.webp) | 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 |
 | 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. |
.jpg.webp) | 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 | |
%252C_crop.jpg.webp) | Rock firefinch | Lagonosticta sanguinodorsalis | central Nigeria |
.jpg.webp) | Chad firefinch | Lagonosticta umbrinodorsalis | southwest Chad where it is fairly common and northeast Cameroon |
 | 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 |
.jpg.webp) | Bar-breasted firefinch | Lagonosticta rufopicta | Gambia and southern Senegal east to western Uganda and eastern Kenya |
.jpg.webp) | Brown firefinch | Lagonosticta nitidula | Angola, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, southern Tanzania and northern areas of Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe |
 | 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 |
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.
- ↑ 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. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106757.
- ↑ 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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