Species profile
Spinus obscurus
Spinus obscurus
Quick answer
HOLOTYPE: AMNH 456881, female, collected in the Thüringer Wald, Germany, on 6 April 1819. From the Brehm Collection via the Rothschild Collection.
- Scientific name
- Spinus obscurus
- Family
- Fringillidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Spinus
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