Editing Common linnet (section)

==Taxonomy==
In 1758, the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] included the common linnet in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|10th edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]'' under the [[Binomial nomenclature|binomial name]], ''Acanthis cannabina''.<ref name=checklist>{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jnr. | year=1968 | title=Check-list of birds of the world, Volume 14 | volume=14 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | pages=255–256 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14481456 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first= C. | author-link= Carl Linnaeus | year=1766 | title= Systema Naturæ per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Volume 1| volume= 1 | edition=10th | page=182 | publisher=Holmiae:Laurentii Salvii  | language = la | url= https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727089 }}</ref> The species was formerly placed in the genus ''[[Carduelis]]'' but based on the results of a [[phylogenetic]] analysis of [[mitochondrial]] and nuclear DNA sequences published in 2012, it was moved to the genus ''[[Linaria (bird)|Linaria]]'' that had been introduced by the German naturalist [[Johann Matthäus Bechstein]] in 1802.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | title=Finches, euphonias | work= World Bird List Version 5.2| url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/finches/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union| access-date=5 June 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1=Zuccon | first1=Dario  | last2=Prŷs-Jones | first2=Robert | last3=Rasmussen | first3=Pamela C. | last4=Ericson | first4=Per G.P. | year=2012 | title=The phylogenetic relationships and generic limits of finches (Fringillidae) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=62 | issue=2 | pages=581–596 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2011.10.002 | url=http://www.nrm.se/download/18.9ff3752132fdaeccb6800010935/Zuccon%20et%20al%202012.pdf | pmid=22023825}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Bechstein  | first=Johann Matthäus | author-link=Johann Matthäus Bechstein | year=1803 | title=Ornithologisches Taschenbuch von und für Deutschland, oder, Kurze Beschreibung aller Vögel Deutschlands für Liebhaber dieses Theils der Naturgeschichte | page=121 | place=Leipzig | publisher=Carl Friedrich Enoch Richter | language=de | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41098731 }}</ref>

The genus name ''linaria'' is the [[Latin]] for a linen-weaver, from ''linum'', "flax". The species name ''cannabina'' comes from the Latin for [[hemp]].<ref>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling |publisher = Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages=89, 227 }}</ref> The English name has a similar root, being derived from [[Old French]] ''linette'', from ''lin'', "flax".<ref name=OED>{{ OED |Linnet}}</ref>

There are seven recognised [[subspecies]]:<ref name=ioc/>

* ''L. c. autochthona'' ([[Phillip Clancey|Clancey]], 1946) &ndash; Scotland
* ''L. c. cannabina'' ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]) &ndash; western, central and northern Europe, western and central Siberia. Non-breeding in north Africa and southwest Asia	
* ''L. c. bella'' ([[Christian Ludwig Brehm|Brehm, CL]], 1845) &ndash; Middle East to Mongolia and northwestern China
* ''L. c. mediterranea'' ([[Viktor von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen|Tschusi]], 1903) &ndash; Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Greece, northwest Africa and Mediterranean islands
* ''L. c. guentheri'' ([[Hans Edmund Wolters|Wolters]], 1953) &ndash; Madeira
* ''L. c. meadewaldoi'' ([[Ernst Hartert|Hartert]], 1901) &ndash; western and central Canary Island (El Hierro and Gran Canaria)
* ''L. c. harterti'' ([[David Armitage Bannerman|Bannerman]], 1913) &ndash; eastern Canary Islands (Alegranza, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura)

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Common linnet (Linaria cannabina mediterranea) male.jpg|''L. c. mediterranea'', male
Common linnet (Linaria cannabina mediterranea) female.jpg|''L. c. mediterranea'', female
Common linnet (Linaria cannabina mediterranea) juvenile.jpg|''L. c. mediterranea'', juvenile
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