Corsican finch

Corsican finch
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
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
Wikispecies has information related to: Carduelis corsicana

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

It was formerly regarded a subspecies of the citril finch, but it differs in morphology and vocalizations (Cramp & Perrins, 1994, 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). Formerly, both were placed in the genus Serinus, but they appear to be close relatives of the European goldfinch (Arnaiz-Villena et al., 1998, contra van den Elzen & Khoury, 1999).

It is found in Corsica, Sardinia and on the Italian islands of Elba, Capraia and Gorgona.

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

Near Col de Vergio, Corsica, Sept 2014

Phylogeny

It has been obtained by Antonio Arnaiz-Villena et al.[2][3]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Carduelis corsicana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  2. Arnaiz-Villena, Antonio; Alvarez-Tejado M.; Ruiz-del-Valle V.; García-de-la-Torre C.; Varela P; Recio M. J.; Ferre S.; Martinez-Laso J. (1998). "Phylogeny and rapid Northern and Southern Hemisphere speciation of goldfinches during the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs" (PDF). Cell.Mol.Life.Sci. 54(9):1031-41.
  3. Zamora, J; Moscoso J; Ruiz-del-Valle V; Ernesto L; Serrano-Vela JI; Ira-Cachafeiro J; Arnaiz-Villena A (2006). "Conjoint mitochondrial phylogenetic trees for canaries Serinus spp. and goldfinches Carduelis spp. show several specific polytomies" (PDF). Ardeola 53 (1): 1–17.

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