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Coccopygia
Genus of birds / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coccopygia, is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae. They are distributed across central and southern Africa.
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Coccopygia | |
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Swee waxbill (Coccopygia melanotis) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Estrildidae |
Subfamily: | Estrildidae |
Genus: | Coccopygia Reichenbach, 1862 |
Type species | |
Fringilla melanotis swee waxbill Temminck, 1823 | |
Species | |
Coccopygia quartinia |
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