Compact weaver

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Compact weaver
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Ploceidae
Genus: Pachyphantes
Shelley, 1896
Species:
P. superciliosus
Binomial name
Pachyphantes superciliosus
(Shelley, 1873)
Synonyms

Ploceus superciliosus

The compact weaver (Pachyphantes superciliosus) is a species of bird in the family Ploceidae. It is the only species placed in the genus Pachyphantes. It has a highly discontinuous distribution from Senegal to Liberia, east to Ethiopia and south to Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Taxonomy

The compact weaver was formally described in 1873 as Hyphantornis superciliosus by the English ornithologist George Ernest Shelley based on specimens collected in West Africa. [2] [3] The specific epithet is Latin meaning "haughty" or "eyebrowed" from supercilium meaning "eyebrow". [4] The compact weaver is now the only species placed in the genus Pachyphantes that was introduced for the species by Shelley in 1896. [5] [6] [7] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek παχυς/pakhus meaning "large" or "thick" with ὑφαντης/huphantēs meaning "weaver". [8] A molecular genetic study of the weaverbirds published in 2017 found that the compact weaver was sister to clade containing the fodies in the genus Foudia . [9] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. [7]

Distribution and habitat

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland.

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Ploceus superciliosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016 e.T22719054A94608857. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22719054A94608857.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Shelley, George Ernest (1873). "Description of six new species of West-African birds". Ibis: 138-143 [140-141].
  3. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 52.
  4. ↑ Jobling, James A. "superciliosus". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
  5. ↑ Shelley, George Ernest (1896). The Birds of Africa, comprising all the species which occur in the Ethiopian region. Vol. 1, List. London: R.H. Porter. p. 36.
  6. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 33.
  7. 1 2 AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi: 10.2173/avilist.v2025 . Retrieved 20 November 2025.
  8. ↑ Jobling, James A. "Pachyphantes". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
  9. ↑ De Silva, T.N.; Peterson, A.T.; Bates, J.M.; Fernando, S.W.; Girard, M.G. (2017). "Phylogenetic relationships of weaverbirds (Aves: Ploceidae): A first robust phylogeny based on mitochondrial and nuclear markers". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 109: 21–32. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.12.013.


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