Linaria (bird)

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Linaria
Common linnet,nuptial plumage,Bluthanfling (Carduelis cannabina).JPG
Male common linnet (Linaria cannabina) in breeding plumage
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Fringillidae
Subfamily: Carduelinae
Genus: Linaria
Bechstein, 1802
Type species
Fringilla cannabina [1]
Linnaeus, 1758
Species

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Linaria is a genus of small passerine birds in the finch family (Fringillidae) that contains the twite and the linnets. The genus name linaria is the Latin for a linen-weaver, from linum, "flax". [2]

The species were formerly included in the genus Carduelis . A molecular phylogenetic study using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences published in 2012 found that the genus was polyphyletic. [3] It was therefore split into monophyletic genera and the twite and the linnets moved to the resurrected genus Linaria. [4] The name had originally been introduced in 1802 by the German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein. [5]

Species

The genus contains four species: [4]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Carduelis flavirostris.jpg Linaria flavirostris Twite northern Europe and across central Asia
Carduelis cannabina -England -male-8.jpg Linaria cannabina Common linnet Europe, western Asia and north Africa
Linaria yemenensis 261076382.jpg Linaria yemenensis Yemen linnet Saudi Arabia and Yemen
Linaria johannis Warsangli linnet Somaliland

References

  1. ↑ "Fringillidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London, United Kingdom: Christopher Helm. p.  227. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. ↑ Zuccon, Dario; Prŷs-Jones, Robert; Rasmussen, Pamela C.; Ericson, Per G.P. (2012). "The phylogenetic relationships and generic limits of finches (Fringillidae)" (PDF). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 62 (2): 581–596. Bibcode:2012MolPE..62..581Z. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2011.10.002. PMID   22023825.
  4. 1 2 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David (eds.). "Finches, euphonias". World Bird List Version 5.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  5. ↑ Bechstein, Johann Matthäus (1803). Ornithologisches Taschenbuch von und für Deutschland, oder, Kurze Beschreibung aller Vögel Deutschlands für Liebhaber dieses Theils der Naturgeschichte (in German). Leipzig: Carl Friedrich Enoch Richter. p. 121.
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