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Genus of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Malimbus is a genus of birds in the family Ploceidae. It was erected by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1805.[2][3]
Malimbus | |
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Red-headed malimbe (Malimbus rubricollis) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Ploceidae |
Genus: | Malimbus Vieillot, 1805 |
Type species | |
Malimbus cristatus[1] Vieillot, 1805 |
The genus contains the following ten species:[4]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Malimbus coronatus | Red-crowned malimbe | Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. | |
Malimbus cassini | Cassin's malimbe | Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Ghana. | |
Malimbus racheliae | Rachel's malimbe | Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria | |
Malimbus ballmanni | Gola malimbe | Gola Forest in Sierra Leone and in western Liberia, eastern Liberia to western Ivory Coast and Diecke Forest Reserve in Guinea | |
Malimbus scutatus | Red-vented malimbe | Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo | |
Malimbus ibadanensis | Ibadan malimbe | Nigeria | |
![]() | Malimbus nitens | Blue-billed malimbe | Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo, and Uganda. |
![]() | Malimbus rubricollis | Red-headed malimbe | Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. |
Malimbus erythrogaster | Red-bellied malimbe | Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, South Sudan, and Uganda. | |
![]() | Malimbus malimbicus | Crested malimbe | Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Uganda. |
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