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White-throated Munia or African Silverbill
Euodice [malabarica or cantans] (= Euodice malabarica) (Linnaeus, C 1758)
Classification
Order:Passeriformes
Family:
Estrildidae
Genus:
Euodice
Scientific:
Euodice malabarica
Original description
Citation:
(Linnaeus, C 1758)
Reference:
Systema Naturae ed. 10
1 p.175
Protonym:
Loxia malabarica
Type locality:
India ; restricted to Malabar by Baker, 1926, Fauna Brit. India, Birds, ed. 2, 3, p. 89.
Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10277#page/194/mode/1up
Avibase identifiers
Avibase ID:
5101D7BEDE2C85F5
Avibase ID:
avibase-5101D7BE
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/5101D7BE
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 916655
Geographic range:
- Euodice cantans: lowland and foothill savanna, acacia grassland, and thornscrub, from southern Mauritania eastward through the Sahel to northern Sudan (has occurred southeastern Egypt), Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, and southward to northern Tanzania, and southern Arabian Peninsula; population in southern Algeria is of origin uncertain, introduced to Hawaiian islands
- Euodice cantans cantans: Mauritania and Senegal eastward to central Sudan and northwestern South Sudan
- Euodice cantans orientalis: far southeastern Egypt, eastern Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, southeastern South Sudan, Kenya, and northern Tanzania; southern Arabian Peninsula (southwestern Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and western Oman)
- Euodice malabarica: Arabian Peninsula to southeastern Iran, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Sikkim
Source: Clements checklist
White-throated Munia or African Silverbill
French:
Capucin bec-de-plomb ou C. bec-d'argent
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
| American Ornithologists' Union 5th edition (incl. 34th suppl.): Warbling Silverbill ( Lonchura malabarica) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (1983): Warbling Silverbill ( Lonchura malabarica) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (incl. 35th suppl.): Warbling Silverbill ( Lonchura malabarica) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (incl. 36th suppl.): Warbling Silverbill ( Lonchura malabarica) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (incl. 37th suppl.): Warbling Silverbill ( Lonchura malabarica) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (incl. 38th suppl.): Warbling Silverbill ( Lonchura malabarica) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (incl. 39th suppl.): Warbling Silverbill ( Lonchura malabarica) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (incl. 40th suppl.): Warbling Silverbill ( Lonchura malabarica) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 6th edition (incl. 41st suppl.): Warbling Silverbill ( Lonchura malabarica) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 7th edition (1998): Warbling Silverbill ( Lonchura malabarica) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): White-throated Munia or African Silverbill ( Euodice [malabarica or cantans]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): White-throated Munia or African Silverbill ( Euodice [malabarica or cantans]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): White-throated Munia or African Silverbill ( Euodice [malabarica or cantans]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025): White-throated Munia or African Silverbill ( Euodice [malabarica or cantans]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): White-throated Munia or African Silverbill ( Lonchura [malabarica or cantans]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): White-throated Munia or African Silverbill ( Lonchura [malabarica or cantans]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): White-throated Munia or African Silverbill ( Euodice [malabarica or cantans]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): White-throated Munia or African Silverbill ( Euodice [malabarica or cantans]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): White-throated Munia or African Silverbill ( Euodice [malabarica or cantans]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): White-throated Munia or African Silverbill ( Euodice [malabarica or cantans]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): White-throated Munia or African Silverbill ( Euodice [malabarica or cantans]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): White-throated Munia or African Silverbill ( Euodice [malabarica or cantans]) |
| Clements 3rd edition: White-throated Munia ( Lonchura malabarica) [version 1] |
| Morony, Bock and Farrand: Warbling Silverbill ( Lonchura malabarica) [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds: Lonchura malabarica [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds (original): Lonchura malabarica [version 1] |
| Peters' Check-list of the Birds (2nd edition): Lonchura malabarica [version 1] |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: species group (sometimes a species)
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Other synonyms
See also the taxonomic synonyms table.
Arabic: فضي المنقار
Bengali: দেশি চাঁদিঠোঁট
Czech: Amadina stríbrozobá, stříbrozobka malabarská
Danish: Afrikansk Sølvnæb
German: Indischer Silberschnabel, Malabarfasänchen, Silberschnäbelchen
English: Indian Silverbill, Warbling Silverbill, White-throated Munia, White-throated Munia or African Silverbill
Esperanto: Plumbbekulo
Spanish: Capuchino Gorjeador
Estonian: leetamadiin
Finnish: Idänhopeanokka
French: Capucin bec-de-plomb, Capucin bec-de-plomb ou C. bec-d'argent
Hebrew: כסוף מקור הודי, כסוף־מקור הודי, כסוף-מקור הודי
Hungarian: indiai ezüstcsőrűpinty
Icelandic: Söngstrildi
Italian: Becco d'argento indiano
Japanese (romaji): afurikaginbashi
Japanese: アフリカギンバシ, ギンパシ
Scientific: Euodice [malabarica or cantans], Euodice malabarica, Lonchura [malabarica or cantans], Lonchura malabarica, Loxia malabarica
Lithuanian: Azijinis sidabrasnapis
Nepali: चा“दीठू“डे मुनिया“
Dutch: Loodbekje
Norwegian: Indiasølvnebb
Polish: srebnodziobek afrykanski, srebrnodziobek afrykanski, srebrnodziobek afrykański, Srebrnodziobek indyjski
Portuguese: Bico-de-chumbo-indiano
Russian: Амадина серебряноклювая, Малабарская амадина
Slovak: mníška striebrozobka
Slovenian: afriški srebrnokljunček
Swedish: Afrikansk silvernäbb, Indisk silvernäbb
Tamil: Venthondai Chillai
Turkish: Hint gümüşgagası
Ukrainian: Сріблодзьоб індійський
Chinese: 白喉文鸟
Chinese (Traditional): 白喉文鳥
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