Acanthis flammea

Familia: Fringillidae
Subfamilia: Carduelinae
Genus: Acanthis
Species: Acanthis flammea
Subspecies: A. f. cabaret – A. f. exilipes – A. f. flammea – A. f. hornemanni – A. f. rostrata

Synonyms: A. f. holboelli – included in flammea; A. f. islandica – included in rostrata.

Acanthis flammea (Linnaeus, 1758)

• Type locality: Europe; restricted to Norrland, Sweden.

• Fringilla flammea (protonym)
• Carduelis flammea (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Fringilla linaria Linnaeus, 1758
• Linaria borealis Vieillot, 1818
• Linaria longirostris Brehm, 1855

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL p. 182 BHL Reference page. 

• Mason, N.A. & Taylor, S.A. 2015. Differentially expressed genes match bill morphology and plumage despite largely undifferentiated genomes in a Holarctic songbird. Molecular Ecology 24(12): 3009–3025. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13140 Reference page. 
• Funk, E.R., Mason, N.A., Pálsoon, S., Albrecht, T., Johnson, J.A. & Taylor, S.A. 2021. A supergene underlies linked variation in color and morphology in a Holarctic songbird. Nature Communications 12: 6833 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27173-z Reference page. 

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