Overview
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The Painted Firetail, Emblema pictum, is a common species of found in Australia. It is also known as the Painted Finch or the Painted Firetail Finch. It is the only species in the genus Emblema.
It has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,000,000 kmē. It is found in semi-desert area, grassland and subtropical (lowland) dry grassland. The status of the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
Taxonomy
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The Genus Emblema is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 6 species and subspecies in the Genus Emblema: E. bella (Beautiful Firetail Finch) · E. guttata (Diamond Firetail Finch) · E. guttatum · E. oculata (Red-Eared Firetail Finch) · E. picta · E. pictum (Painted Firetail)
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