Chloris aurelioi Rando, Alcover & Carlos, 2010
Slender-billed greenfinch
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Carduelis aurelioi Rando, Alcover & Carlos, 2010
Conservation Status
Extinct (Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025)
Last record: 11477-11257 BCE (Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025)
Distribution & Habitat
Teneriffe, Canary Islands, Macaronesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: DZUL 3047
Type locality: "Cueva del Viento"
Note: see the original description for in-depth descriptions of the many paratypes.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Rando, J. C., Alcover, J. A., and Illera, J. C. (2010). Disentangling Ancient Interactions: A New Extinct Passerine Provides Insights on Character Displacement among Extinct and Extant Island Finches. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12956. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012956
Other references:
Fernández-Palacios, José María, Fructuoso, Melania, Illera, Juan Carlos, Rando, Juan Carlos, de Nascimento, Lea, Fernández-Palacios, Enrique, Patiño, Jairo, Otto, Rüdiger, Castilla-Beltrán, Álvaro, González, Esther Martín, Orihuela-Rivero, Raúl, Alcover, Josep Antoni, Whittaker, Robert J. (2025). A synthesis of terrestrial species extinctions in the Macaronesian Islands and their correspondence with human occupancy. PNAS Nexus 4(8): pgaf215. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf215 [Supplementary data (.docx)]
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.
Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]