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Coccopygia
Sign in to saveCoccopygia is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across central and southern Africa.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCocculinida
- FamilyCocculinidae
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Coccopygia is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across central and southern Africa.
==Taxonomy== The genus Coccopygia was introduced in 1862 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach. The name combines the Ancient Greek kokkos meaning "scarlet" with -pugios meaning "-rumped". The type species was designated as the swee waxbill by Richard Bowdler Sharpe in 1890. The genus Coccopygia is sister to the olivebacks in the genus Nesocharis.
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Yellow-breasted Chat
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Coccopygia melanotis
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