Malimbus

{{Short description|Genus of birds}}

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| name = Malimbus

| image = Redheadedmalimbe.jpg

| image_caption = Red-headed malimbe (Malimbus rubricollis)

| taxon = Malimbus

| authority = Vieillot, 1805

| type_species = Malimbus cristatus{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=190 |title= Ploceidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-16}}

| type_species_authority = Vieillot, 1805

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Malimbus is a genus of birds in the family Ploceidae. It was erected by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1805.{{ cite book | last=Vieillot | first=Louis Pierre | author-link=Louis Pierre Vieillot | year=1805 | title=Histoire naturelle des plus beaux oiseaux chanteurs de la zone torride | publisher=J.E.G. Dufour | place=Paris | oclc=488519744 | page=71 }}{{ cite book | editor1-last=Mayr | editor1-first=Ernst | editor1-link=Ernst Mayr | editor2-last=Greenway | editor2-first=James C. Jr | year=1962 | title=Check-list of birds of the world | volume=15 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=57 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14485430 }}

The genus contains the following ten species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2017 | title=Old World sparrows, snowfinches & weavers | work=World Bird List Version 7.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/weavers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=1 July 2017 }}

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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
120px	Malimbus nitens	Blue-billed malimbe	African tropical rainforest.
120px	Malimbus rubricollis	Red-headed malimbe	African tropical rainforest.
	Malimbus erythrogaster	Red-bellied malimbe	Central Africa.
120px	Malimbus malimbicus	Crested malimbe	African tropical rainforest.