Blue-billed Malimbe
Malimbus nitens(Gray, JE, 1831)
English (US) Blue-billed Malimbe
The Blue-billed Malimbe (Malimbus nitens) 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 Ploceidae (Weavers and Allies) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: Senegambia to northwestern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and western UgandaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Malimbus nitens
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Blue-billed Malimbe
- Described by
- (Gray, JE, 1831)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Ploceus nitens
- Described by
- (Gray, JE, 1831)
- Type locality
- Sierra Leone (cf. Sharpe, 1890, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 13, p. 481).
- Original description
- The zoological miscellany 1 p.7
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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