Sporopipes

Sporopipes
Speckle-fronted weaver (Sporopipes frontalis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Ploceidae
Genus:
Cabanis, 1847
Type species
Fringilla lepidoptera[1]
M.H.C. Lichtenstein, 1842

Sporopipes is a genus of birds in the weaver family.[2]

Species

Genus Sporopipes – Cabanis, 1847 – two species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Scaly-feathered weaver

Sporopipes squamifrons
(Smith, 1836) 		Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Speckle-fronted weaver

Sporopipes frontalis
(Daudin, 1800) 		Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 




References

  1. ^ "Ploceidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers". World Bird List Version 8.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 November 2018.


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