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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.

 

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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)]

 

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