Violet-eared Waxbill
Granatina granatina(Linnaeus, C, 1766)
English (US) Violet-eared Waxbill
The Violet-eared Waxbill (Granatina granatina) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Estrildidae (Munias, Parrotfinches, Waxbills, and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: Angola to Namibia, Zambia, southern Zimbabwe, Botswana, and northern South AfricaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Granatina granatina
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Violet-eared Waxbill
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Fringilla granatina
- Described by
- (Linnaeus, C, 1766)
- Type locality
- Brazil; emended to Angola by W. L. Sclater, 1930, Syst. Av. Aethiop., p. 806; further restricted to Huila, Angola, by Clancey, 1959, Durban Mus. Novit., 5, p. 256.1
- Original description
- Systema Naturæ. Editio duodecima reformata. Tomus I [part 1] p.319
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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