Green-winged Pytilia
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| Green-winged Pytilia | |
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| Adult male, Tsavo East NP, Kenya | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Estrildidae |
| Genus: | Pytilia |
| Species: | P. melba |
| Binomial name | |
| Pytilia melba (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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The Green-winged Pytilia (Pytilia melba) is a common species of estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 6,000,000 square kilometres (2,300,000 sq mi).[2]
It is found in most of Africa south of the Sahara.[1] It has two subspecies, nominate melba and citerior, which are sometimes treated as separate species.[citation needed]
[edit] Origin
Origin and phylogeny has been obtained by Antonio Arnaiz-Villena et al.[3] Estrildinae may have originated in India and dispersed thereafter (towards Africa and Pacific Ocean habitats).
[edit] Gallery
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Male, San Diego Zoo
[edit] References
- ^ a b BirdLife International (2008). Pytilia melba. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 2009-12-16.
- ^ "Green-winged Pytilia". BirdLife International. http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=8610&m=0. Retrieved 16 December 2009.
- ^ Arnaiz-Villena, A; Ruiz-del-Valle V, Gomez-Prieto P, Reguera R, Parga-Lozano C, Serrano-Vela I (2009). "Estrildinae Finches (Aves, Passeriformes) from Africa, South Asia and Australia: a Molecular Phylogeographic Study". The Open Ornithology Journal 2: 29–36. http://chopo.pntic.mec.es/biolmol/publicaciones/Estrildinae_finches_2009.pdf.
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