Corsican finch

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Corsican finch
Carduelis citrinella corsicana.JPG

Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification edit
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.

Formerly, both were placed in the genus Serinus, but they appear to be close relatives of the European goldfinch (Arnaiz-Villena et al., 1998).

Distribution[]

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

Description[]

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

Near Col de Vergio, Corsica, Sept 2014

Taxonomy[]

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[]

  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.
  • Arnaiz-Villena, A., Alvarez-Tejado, M., Ruiz-del-Valle, V., Garcia-de-la-Torre, C., Varela, P., Recio, M., Martinez-Laso, J. (1998). Phylogeny and rapid Northern and Southern Hemisphere speciation of goldfinches during the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 54(9), 1031–1041.[1]
  • Arnaiz-Villena, A., Gómez-Prieto, P., & Ruiz-de-Valle, V. (2009). Phylogeography of finches and sparrows. Animal Genetics", New York, NY: USA: Nova Pub.[1]
  • 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. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01722.x.
  • 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. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.02.014. PMID 19249374.
  • Pasquet, E.; Thibault, J.-C. (1997). "Genetic differences among mainland and insular forms of the Citril Finch Serinus citrinella". Ibis. 139 (4): 679–684. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1997.tb04691.x.
  • Sangster, G (2000). "Genetic distance as a test of species boundaries in the Citril Finch Serinus citrinella: a critique and taxonomic reinterpretation". Ibis. 142 (3): 487–490. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.2000.tb04447.x.
  • Sangster, George; Knox, Alan G.; Helbig, Andreas J.; Parkin, David T. (2002). "Taxonomic recommendations for European birds". Ibis. 144 (1): 153–159. doi:10.1046/j.0019-1019.2001.00026.x.
  • 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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