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Pytilia
Sign in to savePytilia is a genus of small brightly coloured seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across Africa.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyEstrildidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Estrildidae
- Collections
- CSULB, KU, CLO, UMMZ
- Recorded in
- United States, Tanzania
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- Parent taxon
- Estrildidae
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- Green-winged Pytilia (Pytilia melba).jpg
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Pytilia is a genus of small brightly coloured seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across Africa.
==Taxonomy== The genus Pytilia was introduced in 1837 by the English naturalist William Swainson for the red-winged pytilia. The name Pytilia is a diminutive of the genus Pitylus that had been introduced in 1829 by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier for the grosbeaks. A molecular phylogenetic study has shown that the genus is basal to a clade containing the twinspots in the genera Euschistospiza, Hypargos and Clytospiza and the firefinches in Lagonosticta.
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