Sporopipes

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Sporopipes
Speckle-fronted Weaver RWD.jpg
Speckle-fronted weaver (Sporopipes frontalis)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Ploceidae
Genus: Sporopipes
Cabanis, 1847
Type species
Fringilla lepidoptera [1]
M.H.C. Lichtenstein, 1842

Sporopipes is a genus of birds in the weaver family. [2]

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Species

Genus Sporopipes – Cabanis, 1847 – two species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Scaly-feathered weaver

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Sporopipes squamifrons
(Smith, 1836)		Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Size:

Habitat:

Diet:		  LC 


Speckle-fronted weaver

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Sporopipes frontalis
(Daudin, 1800)		Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.Size:

Habitat:

Diet:		  LC 



References

  1. ↑ "Ploceidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers". World Bird List Version 8.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 November 2018.


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