Slender-billed greenfinch

Slender-billed greenfinch; Temporal range: Holocene
	Cranium and mandible (B)
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 in the island Tenerife of the Canary Islands. It was described on September 23, 2010. It occurred during the Holocene epoch.[1]

Description

Restoration

This bird was like many greenfinch species in its coloring, being olive green throughout most of the body. Its bill, as the name suggests, is longer and thinner than most Carduelis finches.

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. 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. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012956. PMC 2944890. PMID 20886036.