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Ploceus
Sign in to savePloceus is a genus of birds in the weaver family, Ploceidae. They are native to the Indomalayan and Afrotropical realms.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyPloceidae
Observations recorded1,905,643
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 980
- With media
- 36
- Family
- Ploceidae
- Collections
- YPM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, MSU, CUMV, UAZ
- Recorded in
- Tanzania, Dr Congo, Kenya, United States, Uganda, Vietnam, Thailand, Congo
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Taxonomy and systematics
- Phylogeny
- Species list
- References
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Ploceus is a genus of birds in the weaver family, Ploceidae. They are native to the Indomalayan and Afrotropical realms.
==Taxonomy and systematics== === Phylogeny === The genus Ploceus was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1816. The type species was subsequently designated as the baya weaver. The genus name is from Ancient Greek πλοκευς plokeus meaning "weaver", and is derived from the Greek word πλεκω plekō "to entwine".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ploceus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.