Cream-bellied Munia

Cream-bellied Munia
Cream-bellied Munia
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
Genus: Lonchura
Species: L. pallidiventer
Binomial name
Lonchura pallidiventer
(Restall, 1996)

The Cream-bellied Munia or Cream-bellied Mannikin (Lonchura pallidiventer) is a bird of the family Estrildidae. It was described as new to science by Restall (1996) but is considered a hybrid by van Balen (1998) and Dickinson (2003) and this treatment is followed by the BirdLife Taxonomic Working Group and it is not recognised by BirdLife International. It is found only in Indonesia.