Holub's Golden Weaver
Ploceus xanthops(Hartlaub, KJG, 1862)
English (US) Holub's Golden Weaver
The Holub's Golden Weaver (Ploceus xanthops) 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: Gabon to Angola, Uganda, Kenya, Botswana, and MozambiqueRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ploceus xanthops
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Holub's Golden Weaver
- Described by
- (Hartlaub, KJG, 1862)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Hyphantornis xanthops
- Described by
- (Hartlaub, KJG, 1862)
- Type locality
- Angola. Restricted to 'Lower Cuanza River' by Hall (1960, Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), 6, p. 447).
- Original description
- Ibis ser.1, vol.4, no.16 p.335,342
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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