Malimbus
Malimbus is a genus of birds in the family Ploceidae that are found in sub-Saharan Africa.
Taxonomy
The genus Malimbus was introduced in 1805 by the French ornithologist Louis [Pierre Vieillot|Louis Vieillot] to accommodate a single species, Malibus cristatus Vieillot. This is the type species. It is a junior synonym of Tanagra malimbica, the crested malimbe, that had been described by the French zoologist François Marie Daudin in 1802.The genus contains the following ten species:
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
| Malimbus coronatus | Red-crowned malimbe | Central Africa | |
| Malimbus cassini | Cassin's malimbe | Central Africa | |
| Malimbus racheliae | Rachel's malimbe | western Central Africa | |
| Malimbus ballmanni | Gola malimbe | Gola Forest in Sierra Leone and in western Liberia, eastern Liberia to western Ivory Coast and Diecke Forest Reserve in Guinea | |
| Malimbus scutatus | Red-vented malimbe | West Africa | |
| Malimbus ibadanensis | Ibadan malimbe | Nigeria | |
| Malimbus nitens | Blue-billed malimbe | African tropical rainforest | |
| Malimbus rubricollis | Red-headed malimbe | African tropical rainforest | |
| Malimbus erythrogaster | Red-bellied malimbe | Central Africa | |
| Malimbus malimbicus | Crested malimbe | African tropical rainforest |