Serinus
Sign in to savethumb| A male Atlantic Canary in Parque Rural del Nublo, Gran Canaria, Spain. Serinus is a genus of small birds in the finch family Fringillidae found in West Asia, Europe and Africa. The birds usually have some yellow in their plumage.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPasseriformes
- FamilyFringillidae
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thumb| A male Atlantic Canary in Parque Rural del Nublo, Gran Canaria, Spain. Serinus is a genus of small birds in the finch family Fringillidae found in West Asia, Europe and Africa. The birds usually have some yellow in their plumage.
==Taxonomy== The genus Serinus was introduced in 1816 by the German naturalist Carl Ludwig Koch to accommodate a single species, Serinus hortulanus Koch. This is a junior synonym of Fringilus serinus Linnaeus, the European serin and becomes the type species by monotypy. The genus name is Neo-Latin for "canary-yellow".