A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Ploceidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Thick-billed WeaverAmblyospiza albifrons (Vigors, 1831) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-billed Buffalo WeaverBubalornis albirostris (Vieillot, 1817) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-headed Buffalo WeaverDinemellia dinemelli (Rüppell, 1845) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| White-winged WidowbirdEuplectes albonotatus (Cassin, 1848) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red-collared WidowbirdEuplectes ardens (Boddaert, 1783) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Yellow BishopEuplectes capensis (Linnaeus, 1766) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northern Red BishopEuplectes franciscanus (Isert, 1789) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black BishopEuplectes gierowii Cabanis, 1880 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Black-winged Red BishopEuplectes hordeaceus (Linnaeus, 1758) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Euplectes macroura (Gmelin, 1789) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Zanzibar Red BishopEuplectes nigroventris Cassin, 1848 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red BishopEuplectes orix (Linnaeus, 1758) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Long-tailed WidowbirdEuplectes progne (Boddaert, 1783) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Montane WidowbirdEuplectes psammacromius (Reichenow, 1900) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Foudia aldabrana Ridgway, 1893 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Comoros FodyFoudia eminentissima Bonaparte, 1850 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rodrigues FodyFoudia flavicans A. Newton, 1865 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red FodyFoudia madagascariensis (Linnaeus, 1766) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Forest FodyFoudia omissa Rothschild, 1912 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Mauritius FodyFoudia rubra (Gmelin, 1789) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Gola MalimbeMalimbus ballmanni Wolters, 1974 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cassin's MalimbeMalimbus cassini (Elliot, 1859) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red-crowned MalimbeMalimbus coronatus Sharpe, 1906 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red-bellied MalimbeMalimbus erythrogaster Reichenow, 1893 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ibadan MalimbeMalimbus ibadanensis Elgood, 1958 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Crested MalimbeMalimbus malimbicus (Daudin, 1802) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Blue-billed MalimbeMalimbus nitens (J. E. Gray, 1831) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Rachel's MalimbeMalimbus racheliae (Cassin, 1857) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red-headed MalimbeMalimbus rubricollis (Swainson, 1838) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Red-vented MalimbeMalimbus scutatus (Cassin, 1849) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Maxwell's Black WeaverPloceus albinucha (Bocage, 1876) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Strange WeaverPloceus alienus (Sharpe, 1902) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bar-winged WeaverPloceus angolensis (Bocage, 1878) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Orange WeaverPloceus aurantius (Vieillot, 1805) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Golden-naped WeaverPloceus aureonucha Sassi, 1920 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cinnamon WeaverPloceus badius (Cassin, 1850) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Baglafecht WeaverPloceus baglafecht (Daudin, 1802) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bannerman's WeaverPloceus bannermani Chapin, 1932 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bates's WeaverPloceus batesi (Sharpe, 1908) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ploceus benghalensis (Linnaeus, 1758) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Bertram's WeaverPloceus bertrandi (Shelley, 1893) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dark-backed WeaverPloceus bicolor Vieillot, 1819 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Golden Palm WeaverPloceus bojeri (Cabanis, 1869) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Kilombero WeaverPloceus burnieri N. E. Baker & E. M. Baker, 1990 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cape WeaverPloceus capensis (Linnaeus, 1766) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Taveta WeaverPloceus castaneiceps (Sharpe, 1890) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Northern Brown-throated WeaverPloceus castanops Shelley, 1888 | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Village WeaverPloceus cucullatus (Statius Muller, 1776) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Yellow-capped WeaverPloceus dorsomaculatus (Reichenow, 1893) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ploceus flavipes (Chapin, 1916) | PloceidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.