Slender-billed greenfinch
| Slender-billed greenfinch | |
|---|---|
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| Cranium and mandible (B) | |
| Fossil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Fringillidae |
| Genus: | Chloris |
| Species: | C. aurelioi |
| Binomial name | |
| Chloris aurelioi Rando et al., 2010 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Carduelis aurelioi | |
The slender-billed greenfinch (Chloris aurelioi) is an extinct songbird in the finch family Fringillidae. It was found in the island Tenerife of the Canary Islands. It was described on September 23, 2010. It occurred during the Holocene epoch.[1]
Description
Restoration
This bird was like many greenfinch species in its coloring, being olive green throughout most of the body. Its bill, as the name suggests, is longer and thinner than most Carduelis finches.
References
- ↑ Rando, J. C.; Alcover, J. A.; Illera, J. C. (2010). Plaistow, Stewart, ed. "Disentangling Ancient Interactions: A New Extinct Passerine Provides Insights on Character Displacement among Extinct and Extant Island Finches". PLoS ONE 5 (9): e12956. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012956. PMC 2944890. PMID 20886036.
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