Fringilla coelebs moreletti: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Fringillidae
- Genus
- Fringilla
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Fringilla coelebs moreletti
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Azores chaffinch
The Azores chaffinch (Fringilla moreletti) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, closely related to the Eurasian chaffinch F. coelebs, and formerly treated as a subspecies of it. Genetic, morphological, and vocal differences from it have resulted in it being elevated to species level in 2021. It is endemic to the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, part of Macaronesia in the warm temperate northern Atlantic Ocean. It is locally known as the tentilhão or sachão.
...Fringilla coelebs moreletti in languages:
- Danish
- Azorisk Bogfinke
- Dutch
- Azorenvink
- English
- Azores Chaffinch
- French
- Pinson des Açores
- German
- Azoren Buchfink
- Portuguese
- Tentilhão dos Açores
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Fringilla coelebs africana
- Fringilla coelebs alexandrovi
- Fringilla coelebs balearica
- Fringilla coelebs canariensis
- Fringilla coelebs coelebs
- Fringilla coelebs gengleri
- Fringilla coelebs maderensis
- Fringilla coelebs moreletti
- Fringilla coelebs ombriosa
- Fringilla coelebs palmae
- Fringilla coelebs sarda
- Fringilla coelebs schiebeli
- Fringilla coelebs solomkoi
- Fringilla coelebs spodiogenys
- Fringilla coelebs syriaca
- Fringilla coelebs transcaspia