''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
The violet-eared waxbill or common grenadier (''Granatina granatina'') is a common species of estrildid finch found in drier land of Southern Africa.
Taxonomy
The violet-eared waxbill was Species description, formally described in 1766 by the Sw ...
(''Fringilla granatina'' Linnaeus, 1766).
The two species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in ''
Uraeginthus''. The genus ''Granatina'' was resurrected based on a
molecular phylogenetic
Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...
study published in 2020 that found that these species were deeply divergent from the other species in ''Uraeginthus''.
Species
The genus contains the following two species:
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References
Bird genera
Waxbills
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