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Granatina
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Granatina is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae that are found in Africa.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderPasseriformes
  5. FamilyEstrildidae
Observations recorded4

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
1
With media
1
Family
Estrildidae
Collections
NHMUK
Recorded in
Somalia

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
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Uraeginthus granatina.jpg
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taxon name
Granatina
taxon rank
genus
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Category:Granatina
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  • Species
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Granatina is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae that are found in Africa.

==Taxonomy== The genus was introduced in 1890 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe with the type species (by tautonomy) as the violet-eared waxbill (Fringilla granatina Linnaeus, 1766).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Granatina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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