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Corsican finch

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Corsican finch
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Subfamily: Carduelinae
Genus: Carduelis
Species:
C. corsicana
Binomial name
Carduelis corsicana
(Koenig, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Serinus corsicanus
  • Serinus citrinella corsicanus
  • Serinus corsicana
    (lapsus; see Barbagli & Violani, 1997)
  • Serinus citrinella corsicana
    (lapsus; see Barbagli & Violani, 1997)
  • Carduelis citrinella corsicana
  • Carduelis corsicanus

The Corsican finch (Carduelis corsicana), also known as the Corsican citril finch or Mediterranean citril finch, is a bird in the true finch family, Fringillidae.

Distribution

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It is endemic to the Mediterranean islands of Corsica, Sardinia, Elba, Capraia and Gorgona.

Description

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It has dark-streaked brown upperparts and brighter yellow underparts than the citril finch does.

Near Col de Vergio, Corsica, Sept 2014

Taxonomy

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The first formal description of the Corsican finch was by the German zoologist Alexander Koenig in 1899 under the binomial name Citrinella corsicana.[2] It was formerly regarded a subspecies of the citril finch, but it differs in morphology and vocalizations (Förschler & Kalko, 2007) as well as mtDNA sequence (Sangster, 2000, contra Pasquet & Thibault, 1997, Förschler et al. 2009) and they are now considered distinct species (Sangster et al., 2002, Förschler et al. 2009).

References

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  1. ^ BirdLife International (2017) [amended version of 2016 assessment]. "Carduelis corsicana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22729538A111147051. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  2. ^ Koenig, Alexander (1899). "Eine neu Vogelart von der Insel Corsica". Ornithologische Monatsberichte (in German). 7 (7): 120.
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