Rachel's Malimbe Malimbus racheliae Scientific name definitions
- LC Least Concern
- Names (18)
- Monotypic
Text last updated December 13, 2018
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Species names in all available languages
Language | Common name |
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Catalan | malimbe de Rachel |
Dutch | Rachels Prachtwever |
English | Rachel's Malimbe |
English (United States) | Rachel's Malimbe |
French | Malimbe de Rachel |
French (France) | Malimbe de Rachel |
German | Rachelweber |
Japanese | キムネモリハタオリ |
Norwegian | gulbrystvever |
Polish | wikłacz żółtopierśny |
Russian | Желтогрудый малимб |
Serbian | Rahelova tkalja |
Slovak | pletiarka zlatoprsá |
Spanish | Malimbo de Rachel |
Spanish (Spain) | Malimbo de Rachel |
Swedish | eldmalimbe |
Turkish | Rachel Malimbe |
Ukrainian | Малімб помаранчевоволий |
Malimbus racheliae (Cassin, 1857)
Definitions
- MALIMBUS
- racheliae
The Key to Scientific Names
Legend Overview
Field Identification
15–17 cm. Male has orange-red forehead and crown, passing into yellow on nape; upperparts, including wing and tail, black; lores, cheek, ear-coverts, chin and throat black; large bilobed patch on breast orange in centre, yellow towards margins; belly, flanks and thighs black, undertail-coverts yellow; iris deep red; bill black; legs slate-grey. Female differs from male in having wholly black head and upperparts; orange patch on breast variable in size and in amount of yellow/orange (differences appear to be individual, rather than sex-related); undertail-coverts dull yellow. Juvenile has top and side of head and entire upperparts black, chin, throat and breast orange, belly, flanks and thighs black, undertail-coverts buffy, iris brown, upper mandible brown, lower mandible pale, almost whitish, legs brown.
Systematics History
Subspecies
Distribution
SE Nigeria, W & SW Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and NC Gabon.