The genus Fringilla is a small group of eight species of finches from the Old World. It is the only genus in the subfamily Fringillinae.
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The genus Fringilla is a small group of eight species of finches from the Old World. It is the only genus in the subfamily Fringillinae.
==Taxonomy== The genus Fringilla was described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. The genus name Fringilla is Latin for "finch". Linnaeus included 30 species in the genus (Fringilla zena was listed twice) and of these the Eurasian chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) is considered as the type species.
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