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The Corsican mouflon, first introduced to the island in the Neolithic, is the origin of many populations now found on the European continent and the world. This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Corsica , France .
Accidental species are included in the total species count for Corsica. As with its parent List of birds of Metropolitan France, this list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (English and scientific names) are those of the IOC World Bird List, Version 14.2 (2024). [3]
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Corsican nuthatch, France's only endemic species. This list of birds species recorded in Metropolitan France. The avifauna of France includes a total of 671 species according to the Birds of France website (oiseaux.net). [1] One is endemic to the island of Corsica. Metropolitan France is the French mainland, adjacent islands, and Corsica.
The Corsican nuthatch is sometimes referred to as Whitehead's nuthatch, [40] and it also has a variety of local names in the Corsican language, such as pichjarina, pichja sorda or furmicula, and capinera, used at least in Corte. [21] [7]: 5–6 The species remains relatively unknown to the public. The regional natural park of Corsica has ...
The first formal description of the Corsican finch was by the German zoologist Alexander Koenig in 1899 under the binomial name Citrinella corsicana. [2] It was formerly regarded a subspecies of the citril finch, but it differs in morphology and vocalizations (Förschler & Kalko, 2007) as well as mtDNA sequence (Sangster, 2000, contra Pasquet & Thibault, 1997, Förschler et al. 2009) and they ...
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct. Contents
The Corsican fire salamander (Salamandra corsica) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae found only on the island of Corsica as an endemic species. In former times, this species was known as a subspecies of the widespread but continental-distributed fire salamander , which may appear quite similar.