Species profile
Ploceus ocularius
Ploceus ocularius
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 724516, female, collected at Gigiro in Gudji, east of Lake Abaya, 06.01 N, 37.41 E – 06.36 N, 38.07 E (Ash and Atkins, 2009: 399), Ethiopia, 25 December 1900, by Oscar Neumann (no. 487). From the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Ploceus ocularius
- Family
- Ploceidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Ploceus
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