Biology:La Palma chaffinch
La Palma chaffinch | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Fringillidae |
Subfamily: | Fringillinae |
Genus: | Fringilla |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | F. c. palmae
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Trinomial name | |
Fringilla coelebs palmae Tristram, 1889
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The La Palma chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs palmae), also known as the Palman chaffinch or, locally in Spanish as the pinzón palmero or pinzón hembra, is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is a subspecies of the common chaffinch that is endemic to La Palma in the Canary Islands, a Spain archipelago that forms part of Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Taxonomy
Suárez et al. (2009) found, in a genetic analysis of chaffinches Fringilla coelebs in the Canary Islands that at least three subspecies are present there: F. c. palmae occurs on La Palma in the western Canary Archipelago, F. c. canariensis on La Gomera and Tenerife. The form on El Hierro is F. c. ombriosa, and a fourth, hitherto undescribed taxon previously assigned to F. c. canariensis, on Gran Canaria.[2] Other Macaronesian subspecies occur in the Azores (F. c. moreletti) and on Madeira (F. c. maderensis).
References
Notes
- ↑ http://datazone.birdlife.org/userfiles/file/sowb/countries/Spain2010report.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ↑ Suárez et al. (2009).
Sources
- Marshall, H. Dawn; Baker, Allan J. (1998). "Rates and Patterns of Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Evolution in Fringilline Finches (Fringilla spp.) and the Greenfinch (Carduelis chloris)". Molecular Biology and Evolution 15 (6): 638–646. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025967. PMID 9615445. Archived from the original on 2012-10-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20121009043844/https://www.mun.ca/biology/dmarshall/Marshall_and_Baker_1998.pdf.
- Suárez, Nicolás M.; Betancor, Eva; Klassert, Tilman E.; Almeida, Teresa; Hernández, Mariano; Pestano, José J. (November 2009). "Phylogeography and genetic structure of the Canarian common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) inferred with mtDNA and microsatellite loci". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53 (2): 556–564. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.07.018. PMID 19632343.
Wikidata ☰ Q3084104 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La Palma chaffinch.
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