| Malimbus | |
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| Red-headed malimbe (Malimbus rubricollis) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Ploceidae |
| Genus: | Malimbus Vieillot, 1805 |
| Type species | |
| Malimbus cristatus[1] Vieillot, 1805
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Malimbus is a genus of birds in the family Ploceidae. It was erected by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1805.[2][3]
The genus contains the following ten species:[4]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malimbus coronatus | Red-crowned malimbe | Central Africa | |
| Malimbus cassini | Cassin's malimbe | Central Africa | |
| Malimbus racheliae | Rachel's malimbe | western Central Africa | |
| Malimbus ballmanni | Gola malimbe | Gola Forest in Sierra Leone and in western Liberia, eastern Liberia to western Ivory Coast and Diecke Forest Reserve in Guinea | |
| Malimbus scutatus | Red-vented malimbe | West Africa | |
| Malimbus ibadanensis | Ibadan malimbe | Nigeria | |
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Malimbus nitens | Blue-billed malimbe | African tropical rainforest. |
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Malimbus rubricollis | Red-headed malimbe | African tropical rainforest. |
| Malimbus erythrogaster | Red-bellied malimbe | Central Africa. | |
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Malimbus malimbicus | Crested malimbe | African tropical rainforest. |
- ^ "Ploceidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1805). Histoire naturelle des plus beaux oiseaux chanteurs de la zone torride. Paris: J.E.G. Dufour. p. 71. OCLC 488519744.
- ^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-list of birds of the world. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 57.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Old World sparrows, snowfinches & weavers". World Bird List Version 7.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 1 July 2017.