Granatina is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae that are found in Africa.

Taxonomy

The genus was introduced in 1890 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe with the type species (by tautonomy) as the violet-eared waxbill (Fringilla granatina Linnaeus, 1766).[1]

The two species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in Uraeginthus. The genus Granatina was resurrected based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020 that found that these species were deeply divergent from the other species in Uraeginthus.[2][3]

Species

The genus contains the following two species:[3]

Genus Granatina – Sharpe, 1890 – two species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population
Violet-eared waxbill


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Female

Granatina granatina
(Linnaeus, 1766) 		Southern Africa Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 


Purple grenadier


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Female

Granatina ianthinogaster
(Reichenow, 1879) 		Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda Size:

Habitat:

Diet: 		 LC 




References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Olsson, Urban; Alström, Per (2020). "A comprehensive phylogeny and taxonomic evaluation of the waxbills (Aves: Estrildidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 146: 106757. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2020.106757. PMID 32028027.
  3. ^ a 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 13 July 2021.