Anaplectes | |
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Male red-headed weaver (Anaplectes rubriceps) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Ploceidae |
Genus: | Anaplectes Reichenbach, 1863 |
Type species | |
Ploceus melanotis[1] = Ploceus leuconotus Lafresnaye, 1840
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Anaplectes is a genus of African birds in the weaver family Ploceidae.
The genus Anaplectes was introduced in 1863 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach.[2] The type species was subsequently designated by Richard Bowdler Sharpe as Ploceus leuconotus Müller, JW 1851, now a subspecies of the red-headed weaver (Anaplectes rubriceps).[3][4]
The genus contains the following two species:[5]