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Carl Ludwig Koch>Koch, 1816	European serin>Serinus hortulanusHTTPS://WWW.AVIANSYSTEMATICS.ORG/4TH-EDITION-CHECKLIST?VIEWFAMILIES=196 >TITLE= FRINGILLIDAE	DATE=	PUBLISHER= THE TRUST FOR AVIAN SYSTEMATICS, 2023-07-16, | type_species_authority = Koch, 1816| subdivision_ranks = Species| subdivision = See text.}}Serinus is a genus of small birds in the finch family Fringillidae found in West Asia, Europe and Africa. The birds usually have some yellow in their plumage. The genus was introduced in 1816 by the German naturalist Carl Ludwig Koch.BOOK, Koch, Carl Ludwig, Carl Ludwig Koch, 1816, System der baierischen Zoologie, Volume 1, Nürnberg, 228, de,books.google.com/books?id=cLJYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA228, Its name is Neo-Latin for “canary-yellow”.BOOK, Jobling, James A., 2010, The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names,archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling, Christopher Helm, London, United Kingdom, 978-1-4081-2501-4, 354, Many species were at one time assigned to the genus but it became clear from phylogenetic studies of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences that the genus was polyphyletic. This was confirmed by Dario Zuccon and coworkers in a comprehensive study of the finch family published in 2012. The authors suggested splitting the genus into two monophyletic groups, a proposal that was accepted by the International Ornithologists’ Union. The genus Serinus was restricted to the European serin and seven other species while a larger clade from Africa and Arabia was assigned to the resurrected genus Crithagra.JOURNAL, Zuccon, Dario, PrÅ·s-Jones, Robert, Rasmussen, Pamela C., Ericson, Per G.P., 2012, The phylogenetic relationships and generic limits of finches (Fringillidae), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 62, 2, 581–596, 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.10.002,www.nrm.se/download/18.9ff3752132fdaeccb6800010935/Zuccon%20et%20al%202012.pdf, 22023825, WEB, Gill, Frank, Donsker, David, Finches, euphonias, World Bird List Version 5.2,www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/finches/, International Ornithologists’ Union, 5 June 2015, The genus contains eight species:{| class=“wikitable”
120px)	Serinus pusillus	Red-fronted serin	Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq and Palestine
120px)	Serinus serinus	European serin	southern and central Europe and North Africa
	Serinus syriacus >	Syrian serin >| Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Saudi Arabia
120px)	Serinus canaria	Atlantic canary	the Canary Islands, the Azores, and Madeira
120px)	Serinus canicollis	Cape canary	southern Africa
120px)	Serinus flavivertex	Yellow-crowned canary	eastern Africa
120px)	Serinus nigriceps	Ethiopian siskin	Ethiopia
120px)	Serinus alario	Black-headed canary	Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa

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