Species profile
Ploceus flavissimus
Ploceus flavissimus
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 725031, male, collected at Soullouke´, Ethopia, on 22 August 1904, on the Baron Maurice de Rothschild expedition (no. 460). From the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Ploceus flavissimus
- Family
- Ploceidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Ploceus
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