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Species
common toadflax
Genus
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyFringillidae
Linaria es un género de aves paseriformes de la familia Fringillidae. Sus miembros son conocidos como pardillos y todos fueron incluidos anteriormente en el género Carduelis.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,986
- With media
- 1,475
- Family
- Plantaginaceae
- Collections
- MEL, NHA, UCSC, UCSB, CAS, CM
- Recorded in
- Italy, Russia, Tunisia, Portugal, United States, Australia, Spain, Canada
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Carduelinae
- Image
- Carduelis cannabina -England -male-8.jpg
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- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Linaria
- Commons category
- Linaria (birds)
- topic's main category
- Category:Linaria (bird)
- Commons gallery
- Linaria (birds)
- taxon common name
- Linotte
- homonymous taxon
- Linaria
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Encyclopedic overview
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".
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. It was therefore split into monophyletic genera and the twite and the linnets moved to the resurrected genus Linaria. The name had originally been introduced in 1802 by the German naturalist Johann Matthäus Bechstein.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Linaria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.