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Wikipedia / Malimbus

Malimbus is a genus of birds in the family Ploceidae that are found in sub-Saharan Africa.

Taxonomy

The genus Malimbus was introduced in 1805 by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot to accommodate a single species, Malibus cristatus Vieillot. This is the type species. It is a junior synonym of Tanagra malimbica, the crested malimbe, that had been described by the French zoologist François Marie Daudin in 1802.

The genus contains the following ten species:

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Scientific name

Common name

Distribution

Malimbus coronatus

Red-crowned malimbe

Central Africa

Malimbus cassini

Cassin's malimbe

Central Africa

Malimbus racheliae

Rachel's malimbe

western Central Africa

Malimbus ballmanni

Gola malimbe

Gola Forest in Sierra Leone and in western Liberia, eastern Liberia to western Ivory Coast and Diecke Forest Reserve in Guinea

Malimbus scutatus

Red-vented malimbe

West Africa

Malimbus ibadanensis

Ibadan malimbe

Nigeria

Malimbus nitens

Blue-billed malimbe

African tropical rainforest

Malimbus rubricollis

Red-headed malimbe

African tropical rainforest

Malimbus erythrogaster

Red-bellied malimbe

Central Africa

Malimbus malimbicus

Crested malimbe

African tropical rainforest

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