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Species of bird
The violet-eared waxbill or common grenadier (Granatina granatina) is a common species of
estrildid finch found in drier land of
Southern Africa.
Taxonomy
The violet-eared waxbill was
formally described in 1766 by the Swedish naturalist
Carl Linnaeus in the
twelfth edition of his
Systema Naturae under the
binomial name Fringilla granatina.
[2] Linnaeus took the specific epithet from the earlier description by the French zoologist
Mathurin Jacques Brisson who in 1760 had used the French name Le Grenadin and the Latin Granatinus, meaning "grenadier" in English.
[3]
[4] Linnaeus mistakenly specified the
locality as Brazil. This was an error originally introduced by the English naturalist
George Edwards in 1743 who had believed that his specimen had come from Brazil.
[5] The locality was amended to Angola by
William Lutley Sclater in 1930 and restricted to
Huíla Province in Angola by
Phillip Clancey in 1959.
[6]
[7]
[8] The violet-eared waxbill is now placed in the
genus
Granatina that was introduced in 1890 by the English ornithologist
Richard Bowdler Sharpe.
[9]
[10] The species is treated as
monotypic: no
subspecies are recognised.
[10]
Habitat
Violet-eared waxbill at
Etosha National Park,
Namibia
It is found in subtropical/ tropical (lowland) dry shrubland and savanna habitats in
Angola,
Botswana,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
South Africa,
Zambia and
Zimbabwe. The status of the species is evaluated as
Least Concern.
References
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^ BirdLife International (2016).
"Granatina granatina".
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22719508A94630926.
doi:
10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22719508A94630926.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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^
Linnaeus, Carl (1766).
Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 1 (12th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 319.
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Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760).
Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés (in French and Latin). Vol. 3. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. pp. 216–218, Plate 9 fig. 3.
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^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 177.
ISBN
978-1-4081-2501-4.
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^
Edwards, George (1743).
A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. Vol. Part IV. London: Printed for the author at the College of Physicians. p. 191, Plate 191.
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Sclater, William Lutley (1930). Systema Avium Aethiopicarum. Vol. Part 2. London: Taylor and Francis. p. 806.
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Clancey, Phillip Alexander Clancey (1959).
"Miscellaneous taxonomic notes on African birds XIV". Durban Museum Novitates. 5 (18): 231-259 [256].
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^ Paynter, Raymond A. Jr, ed. (1968).
Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 14. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 335.
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Sharpe, R. Bowdler (1890).
Catalogue of the Passeriformes or Perching Birds in the Collection of the British Museum. Sturnformes. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. 13. London: Trustees of the British Museum. p. 403.
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b
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David;
Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021).
"Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
External links
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