Trias greenfinch
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Trias greenfinch (plural Trias greenfinches)
- Chloris triasi, an extinct species of finch closely related to the European greenfinch (Chloris chloris), known only from fossil remains in La Palma in the Canary Islands.
- 2018 May 15, John Bowler, Wildlife of Madeira and the Canary Islands: A Photographic Field Guide to Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Butterflies and Dragonflies, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 18:
- La Palma had its own endemic species of greenfinch, the Trias Greenfinch, which also had short wings but a much larger head and bill than the European Greenfinch, and presumably also succumbed with the arrival of humans on its island.
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[edit]Chloris triasi
References
[edit]Trias greenfinch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Chloris triasi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Chloris triasi on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons