The slender-billed greenfinch ''("Carduelis" aurelioi)'' is an extinct songbird in the finch family

Fringillidae The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae. Finches have stout conical bills adapted for eating seeds and nuts and often have colourful plumage. They occupy a great range of habitats where they are usua ...

. It was endemic to the island

Tenerife Tenerife (; ; formerly spelled ''Teneriffe'') is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands. It is home to 43% of the total population of the archipelago. With a land area of and a population of 978,100 inhabitants as of Janu ...

in the Canary Islands, and became extinct after human settlement of the islands.

Taxonomy

The slender-billed greenfinch was described in 2010 and originally placed in the genus ''

Carduelis The genus ''Carduelis'' is a group of birds in the finch family Fringillidae. The genus ''Carduelis'' was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 by tautonomy based on Carl Linnaeus's specific epithet for the Europe ...

'' with other greenfinches, but living greenfinches were later moved to the separate genus '' Chloris'' in 2012''.'' The combination of ''Chloris aurelioi'' has not been used in the subsequent academic literature.

Description

The bill of the slender-billed greenfinch was longer, thinner, and more conical than the bills of other

greenfinch The greenfinches are small passerine birds in the genus ''Chloris'' in the subfamily Carduelinae within the Fringillidae. The species have a Eurasian distribution except for the European greenfinch, which also occurs in North Africa. These fi ...

es, more similar in shape to the bills of

chaffinch The common chaffinch or simply the chaffinch (''Fringilla coelebs'') is a common and widespread small passerine bird in the finch family. The male is brightly coloured with a blue-grey cap and rust-red underparts. The female is more subdued in ...

es.

References

Extinct birds of Atlantic islands Birds described in 2010 Chloris (bird) Holocene extinctions Late Quaternary prehistoric birds {{Fringillidae-stub