Corsican Finch / Carduelis corsicana
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Corsican Finch
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Protonym: Citrinella corsicana Orn.Monatsb. 7 p.120
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Carduelis
Taxonomy Code: corfin1
Type Locality: Corsica.
Author: Koenig, AF
Publish Year: 1899
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
CARDUELIS
(Fringillidae; Ϯ European Goldfinch C. carduelis) L. carduelis goldfinch < carduus or cardus thistle; "Genus Carduelis. Le genre du Chardonneret. ... Les Chardonnerets volent en troupe. On les voit en hiver sur les têtes de chardons, dont ils mangent les graines." (Brisson 1760): based on "Carduelis" of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599-1603, and numerous other authors, "Aurivittis" of Gessner 1555 and Charleton 1668, "Zena" of Belon 1555, "Cardello" of Olina 1622, "Chrysomitris" of Charleton 1668, "Astragalinus" of Rzaczynski 1721, and "Carduelis vulgaris" of Linnaeus 1748; "Carduelis Brisson, 1760, Ornithologie, 1, p. 36; 3, p. 53. Type, by tautonymy, "Carduelis" = Fringilla carduelis Linnaeus." (Howell & Paynter in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 234).
Var. Cardulis, Cardvelis, Cardualis.
Synon. Chloroptyla, Citrinella.
carduelis
L. carduelis goldfinch < carduus or cardus thistle; ex “Carduelis” of Gessner 1555, Aldrovandus 1599, Jonston 1653, and Willughby 1676, “Gold-Finch” or “Thistle-Finch” of Ray 1713, and “Fringilla remigibus antrorsum luteis: extima immaculata, rectricibus duabus extimis medio reliquisque apice albis” of Linnaeus 1746 (Carduelis).
corsicana / corsicanus
L. Corsicanus Corsican < Corsica or Corsis, Corsidis Corsica.
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
