Species profile
Nigrita sparsimguttata
Nigrita sparsimguttata
Quick answer
SYNTYPE: AMNH 727929, adult unsexed, collected at Bukoba, 01.20 S, 31.49 E (Polhill, 1988), Lake Victoria, Tanzania, November 1890, by Emin Pasha. From the the Rothshild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Nigrita sparsimguttata
- Family
- Estrildidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Nigrita
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