Slender-billed greenfinch

Slender-billed greenfinch; Temporal range: Holocene
	Restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Fringillidae
Subfamily:	Carduelinae
Genus:	Chloris
Species:	†C. aurelioi
Binomial name
	†Chloris aurelioi; (Rando et al., 2010)
Synonyms
	Carduelis aurelioi

The slender-billed greenfinch (Chloris aurelioi) is an extinct songbird in the finch family Fringillidae. It was found on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. It was described on September 23, 2010. It occurred during the Holocene epoch.[1]

Description

The bill of the slender-billed greenfinch was longer, thinner, and more conical than the bills of other greenfinches, more similar in shape to the bills of chaffinches.

Cranium and mandible of slender-billed greenfinch (B), compared with European greenfinch (A) and Trias greenfinch (C)

References

Rando, J. C.; Alcover, J. A.; Illera, J. C. (2010). Plaistow, Stewart (ed.). "Disentangling Ancient Interactions: A New Extinct Passerine Provides Insights on Character Displacement among Extinct and Extant Island Finches". PLOS ONE. 5 (9): e12956. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...512956R. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012956. PMC 2944890. PMID 20886036.

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[1] Rando, J. C.; Alcover, J. A.; Illera, J. C. (2010). Plaistow, Stewart (ed.). "Disentangling Ancient Interactions: A New Extinct Passerine Provides Insights on Character Displacement among Extinct and Extant Island Finches". PLOS ONE. 5 (9): e12956. Bibcode:2010PLoSO...512956R. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012956. PMC 2944890. PMID 20886036.