Chloris triasi Alcover & Florit, 1987
Trias’ finch, Trias' greenfinch
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Carduelis triasi Alcover & Florit, 1987
Conservation Status
Extinct (Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025)
Last record: Late Pleistocene; "few centuries ago" (Fernández-Palacios et al., 2025)
Distribution & Habitat
La Palma, Canary Islands, Macaronesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Alcover, J. A. and Florit, F. (1987). Una nueva especie de Carduelis (Fringillidae) de La Palma. Vieraea 17(1-2): 75-86.
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)]
Rando, J. C. (2003). Protagonistas de una catástrofe silenciosa. Los vertebrados extintos de Canarias. El Indiferente 14: 3-15.
Sangster, George et al. (2011). Taxonomic recommendations for British birds: seventh report. Ibis 153: 883-892.
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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