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Spermestes
''Spermestes'' is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across Sub-Saharan Africa. Taxonomy The genus ''Spermestes'' was introduced in 1837 by the English naturalist William Swainson to accommodate the bronze mannikin. The name combines the Ancient Greek ''sperma'' meaning "seed" and ''-estēs'' meaning "-eater". Based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020, this genus was resurrected for a clade of species that were formerly assigned to the genera ''Lonchura ''Lonchura'' is a genus of the estrildid finch family, and includes munias (or minias) and mannikins. They are seed-eating birds that are found in South Asia from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka east to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippi ...'' and ''Odontospiza''. Species The genus contains four species: References Bird genera Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa Taxa named by William Swainson {{Estrildidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spermestes Bicolor
''Spermestes'' is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across Sub-Saharan Africa. Taxonomy The genus ''Spermestes'' was introduced in 1837 by the English naturalist William Swainson to accommodate the bronze mannikin. The name combines the Ancient Greek ''sperma'' meaning "seed" and ''-estēs'' meaning "-eater". Based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020, this genus was resurrected for a clade In biology, a clade (), also known as a Monophyly, monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that is composed of a common ancestor and all of its descendants. Clades are the fundamental unit of cladistics, a modern approach t ... of species that were formerly assigned to the genera '' Lonchura'' and ''Odontospiza''. Species The genus contains four species: References Bird genera Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa Taxa named by William Swainson {{Estrildidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronze Mannikin
The bronze mannikin or bronze munia (''Spermestes cucullata'') is a small passerine (i.e. perching) bird of the Afrotropics. This very social estrildid finch is an uncommon to locally abundant bird in much of Africa south of the Sahara Desert The Sahara (, ) is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of , it is the largest hot desert in the world and the list of deserts by area, third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Ar ..., where it is resident, nomadic or irruptive in mesic savanna or forest margin habitats. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 8,100,000 km2. It is the smallest and most widespread of four munia species on the African mainland, the other being black-and-white mannikin, black-and-white, red-backed mannikin, red-backed and magpie mannikin. It co-occurs with the Madagascar mannikin on the Comoro Islands, and was introduced to Puerto Rico. Especially in the West Africa, it is cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |