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Western Canary Islands chiffchaff
Subspecies of bird / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The western Canary Islands chiffchaff (Phylloscopus canariensis canariensis) is a small bird in the family Phylloscopidae. It is a subspecies of the Canary Islands chiffchaff found on the islands of El Hierro, La Palma, La Gomera, Tenerife and Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, Spain.
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Western Canary Islands chiffchaff | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Phylloscopidae |
Genus: | Phylloscopus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | P. c. canariensis |
Trinomial name | |
Phylloscopus canariensis canariensis (Hartwig, 1886) | |
Synonyms | |
Phylloscopus collybita canariensis |
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Both the western and the now extinct eastern (Phylloscopus canariensis exsul) subspecies of the Canary Islands chiffchaff were formerly considered subspecies of the common chiffchaff but were separated (Clement & Helbig, 1998; Sangster et al., 2001) due to their morphological, bioacoustical, and mtDNA sequence differences (Helbig et al., 1996).