Vidua

Vidua is a genus of passerine birds in the family Viduidae.

Vidua
Male pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Viduidae
Genus: Vidua
Cuvier, 1816
Species

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The genus was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1816.[1] The type species was subsequently designated as the pin-tailed whydah.[2] The name Vidua is the Latin word for "widow".[3]

The genus contains 19 species:[4]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Vidua chalybeataVillage indigobirdAfrica south of the Sahara Desert.
Vidua purpurascensPurple indigobirdAngola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Vidua raricolaJambandu indigobirdBenin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Togo.
Vidua larvaticolaBarka indigobirdCameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sudan, and South Sudan.
Vidua funereaDusky indigobirdAngola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Vidua codringtoniZambezi indigobirdMalawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Vidua wilsoniWilson's indigobirdCameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, and Togo.
Vidua nigeriaeQuailfinch indigobirdThe Gambia, Nigeria and Cameroon.
Vidua maryaeJos Plateau indigobirdNigeria
Vidua camerunensisCameroon indigobirdSierra Leone to east Cameroon, north east Zaire and South Sudan.
Vidua macrouraPin-tailed whydahAfrica south of the Sahara Desert.
Vidua hypocherinaSteel-blue whydahEthiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Vidua fischeriStraw-tailed whydahEthiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Vidua regiaShaft-tailed whydahSouthern Africa, from south Angola to south Mozambique
Vidua paradisaeaLong-tailed paradise whydahEastern Africa, from eastern South Sudan to southern Angola
Vidua orientalisSahel paradise whydahwest Africa
Vidua interjectaExclamatory paradise whydahBenin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan, and Togo.
Vidua togoensisTogo paradise whydahBenin, Cameroon, Chad, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Togo.
Vidua obtusaBroad-tailed paradise whydahAngola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

References
  1. Cuvier, Georges (1816). Le Règne animal distribué d'après son organisation : pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée (in French). 1. Paris: Déterville. pp. 388–389.
  2. Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
  3. Jobling, J.A. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
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