Granatina

Granatina is a genus of small seed-eating birds in the family Estrildidae that are found in Africa.

Taxonomy

The genus was introduced in 1890 by the English ornithologist Richard Bowdler Sharpe with the type species as the violet-eared waxbill.
The two species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in Uraeginthus. The genus Granatina was resurrected based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020 that found that these species were deeply divergent from the other species in Uraeginthus.

The genus contains the following two species:

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Granatina granatina	Violet-eared waxbill	Southern Africa
	Granatina ianthinogaster	Purple grenadier	Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda