Sporopipes

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

Sporopipes is a genus of birds in the weaver family.[2] It contains these species:

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Sporopipes squamifrons	Scaly-feathered weaver	Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
	Sporopipes frontalis	Speckle-fronted weaver	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.

External links

• Media related to Sporopipes at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Sporopipes at Wikispecies

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.