Corsican finch
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Fringillidae |
| Subfamily: | Carduelinae |
| Genus: | Carduelis |
| Species: | C. corsicana
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| Binomial name | |
| Carduelis corsicana (Koenig, 1899)
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Wikispecies has information related to Carduelis corsicana.
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
It is
Gorgona
.
Description
It has dark-streaked brown upperparts and brighter yellow underparts than the citril finch does.
Taxonomy
The first
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
- ^ BirdLife International (2017) [amended version of 2016 assessment]. "Carduelis corsicana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22729538A111147051. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
- ^ Koenig, Alexander (1899). "Eine neu Vogelart von der Insel Corsica". Ornithologische Monatsberichte (in German). 7 (7): 120.
- Förschler, M.I.; Kalko, E.K.V. (2007). "Geographical differentiation, acoustic adaptation and species boundaries in mainland citril finches and insular Corsican finches, superspecies Carduelis [citrinella]". Journal of Biogeography. 34 (9): 1591–1600. S2CID 28037228.
- Förschler, M.I.; Senar, J.C.; Perret, P.; Björklund, M. (2009). "The species status of the Corsican Finch Carduelis corsicana assessed by three genetic markers with different rates of evolution". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52 (1): 234–240. PMID 19249374.
- Pasquet, E.; Thibault, J.-C. (1997). "Genetic differences among mainland and insular forms of the Citril Finch Serinus citrinella". .
- Sangster, G (2000). "Genetic distance as a test of species boundaries in the Citril Finch Serinus citrinella: a critique and taxonomic reinterpretation". .
- Sangster, George; Knox, Alan G.; Helbig, Andreas J.; Parkin, David T. (2002). "Taxonomic recommendations for European birds". .
- Zamora J, Moscoso J, Ruiz-del-Valle V, Lowy E, Serrano-Vela JI, et al. (2006) Conjoint mitochondrial phylogenetic trees for canaries (Serinus spp.) and goldfinches (Carduelis spp.) show several specific polytomies. Ardeola 53: 1–17. S2CID 46892185
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