- Black-throated Firefinch
Taxobox
name = Black-throated Firefinch
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum =Animal ia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo =Passeriformes
familia =Estrildidae
genus = "Lagonosticta"
species = "L. larvata"
binomial = "Lagonosticta larvata"
binomial_authority = (Rüppell, 1841)The Black-throated Firefinch ("Lagonosticta larvata") is a common species of
estrildid finch found in Africa. It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 2,100,000 km².It is found in
Benin ,Burkina Faso ,Cameroon ,Central African Republic ,Chad ,The Democratic Republic of the Congo ,Côte d'Ivoire ,Ethiopia ,Gambia ,Ghana ,Guinea-Bissau ,Mali ,Niger ,Nigeria ,Senegal ,Sierra Leone ,Sudan ,Togo andUganda . The status of the species is evaluated asLeast Concern ."Lagonosticta vinacea" was a separate species, but findings by Dowsett and Forbes-Watson in 1993 led to reassigning of the "L. vinacea" species as a population under "L. larvata".
References
* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=8638&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]
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