Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
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Afrikaans | Gewone Melba |
Czech | astrild pestrý |
Dutch | Melba-astrild |
English | Green-winged Pytilia |
English (United States) | Green-winged Pytilia |
French | Beaumarquet melba |
French (France) | Beaumarquet melba |
German | Buntastrild |
Icelandic | Klasafinka |
Japanese | ニシキスズメ |
Norwegian | grønnvingeastrild |
Polish | melba pstra |
Portuguese (Angola) | Maracachão-d'asa-verde |
Russian | Пёстрый астрильд |
Serbian | Šarena astrilda |
Slovak | pytília pestrá |
Spanish | Estrilda Melba |
Spanish (Spain) | Estrilda melba |
Swedish | melbaastrild |
Turkish | Yeşil Kanatlı Pitilya |
Ukrainian | Мельба строката |
Pytilia melba (Linnaeus, 1758)
PROTONYM:
Fringilla Melba
Linnaeus, 1758. Systema Naturæ per Regna Tria Naturæ, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata 1, p.180.
TYPE LOCALITY:
China [= Angola, see Zedlitz, 1916, Journ. f. Ornith., 64, p. 31] ; restricted to Luanda by Clancey, 1962, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, 82, p. 4.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2023
Definitions
- PYTILIA
- melba
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Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba Scientific name definitions
Robert B. Payne
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated February 23, 2013
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated February 23, 2013
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Birds of the World
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Version 1.0
- March 4, 2020
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
Authors
Robert B. Payne
Recommended Citation
Payne, R. B. (2020). Green-winged Pytilia (Pytilia melba), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.grwpyt1.01
Handbook of the Birds of the World
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Last Published Version
- February 23, 2013
- Green-winged Pytilia Pytilia melba
Authors
Robert B. Payne
Recommended Citation
Payne, R. B. (2013). Green-winged Pytilia (Pytilia melba). In Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (J. del Hoyo, A. Elliott, J. Sargatal, D. A. Christie, and E. de Juana, Editors). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.