Compact Weaver
Pachyphantes superciliosus(Shelley, GE, 1873)
English (US) Compact Weaver
The Compact Weaver (Pachyphantes superciliosus) 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: patchily distributed from southwestern Senegal and Guinea-Bissau eastward to southeastern Sudan, eastern and southern South Sudan, and western Ethiopia southward to northern Angola, southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, southwestern Kenya, and northwestern TanzaniaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pachyphantes superciliosus
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Compact Weaver
- Described by
- (Shelley, GE, 1873)
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Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Hyphantornis superciliosus
- Described by
- (Shelley, GE, 1873)
- Type locality
- West Africa.
- Original description
- Ibis ser.3, vol.3, no.10 p.140
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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