Island Canary / Serinus canaria
Island Canary
SCI Name:
Protonym: Fringilla Canaria Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.181
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Serinus
Taxonomy Code: comcan
Type Locality: Canary Island.
Author: Linnaeus
Publish Year: 1758
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
SERINUS
(Fringillidae; Ϯ European Serin S. serinus) Specific names Loxia Serinus Scopoli, 1769, and Fringilla Serinus J. Gmelin, 1789; "LIII. Gattung. Girlitz. Serinus. (Tab. VI. A. Fig. 50.) ... Ein niedliches Vögelchen mit dickem weichfederigem Kopfe, etwas leichtem Körper, langen etwas breiten Flügeln und einem ziemlich kurzen, breiten, gabelförmigen Schwanze. Die sehr kurzen, schwachen Füße sind zum Hüpfen, die vier Zehen mit schwachen gebogenen Nägeln versehen. Seine Nahrung besteht in allerlei Samen. Eine Art. 143. Gelbbrüstiger Girlitz. Serinus hortulanus. Grüngelb; der Oberleib schwärzlich und rost-grau gefleckt; Kehle und Brust bis fast in die Mitte des Bauchs schön grüngelb. Loxia serinus. Gmel. Lin. S. I. p. 908. n.17. = Meyers und Wolfs t. p. 146. Fringilla citrinella. Bechst. orn. T. p. 123." (Koch 1816); "Serinus Koch, 1816, Syst. Baierischen Zool., Säug. Vögel, 1, p. 228, pl. 6A, fig. 50. Type, by monotypy, Serinus hortulanus Koch = Fringilla serinus Linnaeus." (Rand in Peters 1968, XIV, 208). In ornithology this name has been associated with a variety of European finches.
Var. Serinsu.
Synon. Alario, Canaria, Chlorindus, Crithologus, Dryospiza, Metoponia, Oraegithus, Pronospiza.
serinus
French Serin canary, serin (origin obscure; said to be a corruption from L. citrinus citron-coloured, or cerinus waxy-yellow, but Cabard & Chauvet 2003, refer to Med. Provençale Serena bird that feeds on bees < Gr. σειρην seirēn, σειρηνος seirēnos unknown small singing bird; Gessner 1555, gives the Italian names of this bird as Serin and Scartzerino).
● ex “Serin” of Brisson 1760 (Serinus).
canaria / canariensis / canarius
L. Canaria Insula one of the Canary Is. < canis dog.
● ex “Canaria” of Gessner 1555, and Aldrovandus 1599, “Passer canariensis” of Jonston 1653, and Willughby 1676, “Canary-bird” of Ray 1713, and “Fringilla rostro corporeque albicante, rectricibus remigibusque virescentibus” of Linnaeus 1746 (Serinus).
Canaria
(Fringillidae; syn. Serinus † Atlantic Canary S. canaria) Specific name Fringilla canaria Linnaeus, 1758; "Common Canary. Canarie commun, - Gemeine Canarie. Canaria varia, Wood" (C. T. Wood 1837); "Canaria C. T. Wood, 1837, Ornithological Guide, p. 215 (nom. nud.). Type, by monotypy, Canaria varia C. T. Wood, 1837 = Fringilla canaria Linnaeus, 1758." (JAJ 2021).
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)