The black-faced quailfinch (''Ortygospiza atricollis atricollis''), is a common subspecies of
estrildid finch
Estrildidae, or estrildid finches, is a family of small seed-eating passerine birds of the Old World tropics and Australasia. They comprise species commonly known as munias, mannikins, firefinches, parrotfinches and waxbills. Despite the word "fi ...
found in western and central of Africa. Some taxonomists consider it to be
conspecific
Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species.
Biochemist Linus Pauling stated that "Biological specificity is the set of characteristics of living organ ...
with the
African quailfinch
The African quailfinch, spectacled quailfinch, or white-chinned quailfinch (''Ortygospiza atricollis fuscocrissa''), is a common species of estrildid finch found in eastern and southern Africa. Some taxonomists consider it to be conspecific with ...
, others consider all three species to be conspecific.
Origin
Origin and
phylogeny
A phylogenetic tree (also phylogeny or evolutionary tree Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.) is a branching diagram or a tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological spe ...
has been obtained by Antonio Arnaiz-Villena et al.
Estrildinae may have originated in India and dispersed thereafter (towards Africa and Pacific Ocean habitats).
References
BirdLife Species Factsheet
External links
* Quail Finch/Black-faced quailfinch
Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds
* African Quailfinch (''Ortygospiza atricollis'')
Species page in ''Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive''
black-faced quailfinch
The black-faced quailfinch (''Ortygospiza atricollis atricollis''), is a common subspecies of estrildid finch found in western and central of Africa. Some taxonomists consider it to be conspecific with the African quailfinch, others consider all ...
Birds of Sub-Saharan Africa
black-faced quailfinch
The black-faced quailfinch (''Ortygospiza atricollis atricollis''), is a common subspecies of estrildid finch found in western and central of Africa. Some taxonomists consider it to be conspecific with the African quailfinch, others consider all ...
Taxa named by Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot
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