Vidua is a genus of passerine birds in the family Viduidae.
| Vidua | |
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| Male pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Viduidae |
| Genus: | Vidua Cuvier, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Emberiza vidua[1] = Fringilla macroura Linnaeus, 1766
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The genus was introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1816.[2] The type species was subsequently designated as the pin-tailed whydah.[3] The name Vidua is a Latin word meaning "widow".[4]
The genus contains 19 species:[5]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Vidua chalybeata | Village indigobird | Africa south of the Sahara Desert. |
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Vidua purpurascens | Purple indigobird | Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. |
| Vidua raricola | Jambandu indigobird | Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Togo. | |
| Vidua larvaticola | Barka indigobird | Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sudan, and South Sudan. | |
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Vidua funerea | Dusky indigobird | Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe |
| Vidua codringtoni | Zambezi indigobird | Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. | |
| Vidua wilsoni | Wilson's indigobird | Cameroon, 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 nigeriae | Quailfinch indigobird | The Gambia, Nigeria and Cameroon. | |
| Vidua maryae | Jos Plateau indigobird | Nigeria | |
| Vidua camerunensis | Cameroon indigobird | Sierra Leone to east Cameroon, north east Zaire and South Sudan. | |
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Vidua macroura | Pin-tailed whydah | Africa south of the Sahara Desert. |
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Vidua hypocherina | Steel-blue whydah | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. |
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Vidua fischeri | Straw-tailed whydah | Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. |
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Vidua regia | Shaft-tailed whydah | Southern Africa, from south Angola to south Mozambique |
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Vidua paradisaea | Long-tailed paradise whydah | Eastern Africa, from eastern South Sudan to southern Angola |
| Vidua orientalis | Sahel paradise whydah | west Africa | |
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Vidua interjecta | Exclamatory paradise whydah | Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Sudan, and Togo. |
| Vidua togoensis | Togo paradise whydah | Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Togo. | |
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Vidua obtusa | Broad-tailed paradise whydah | Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe |
References
edit- ^ "Viduidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
- ^ 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). Vol. 1. Paris: Déterville. pp. 388–389.
- ^ Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 401. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ 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.