Species profile
Ruvu Weaver
Ploceus holoxanthus
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 724738, unsexed [adult male], collected at Mtoni, 06.52 S, 39.16 E, lower reaches of the Ruvu River (= Kingani River) (Polhill, 1988), Tanzania, in January (year not recorded), by F. Bohndorff. From the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Ploceus holoxanthus
- Family
- Ploceidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Ploceus
- Conservation status
- Near Threatened
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