Editing Atlantic canary (section)

==Taxonomy==
The Atlantic canary was [[Species description|formally described]] in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist [[Carl Linnaeus]] in the [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|tenth edition]] of his ''[[Systema Naturae]]''. He placed it with the finches in the [[genus]] ''[[Fringilla]]'' and coined the [[binomial name]] ''Fringilla canaria''.<ref>{{cite book | last=Linnaeus | first=Carl | author-link=Carl Linnaeus | year=1758 | title= Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | volume=1 | edition=10th | page=181 | publisher=Laurentii Salvii | location=Holmiae (Stockholm) | language=Latin | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727088 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1968 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=14 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | pages=210-211 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14481411 }}</ref> In 1555 the Swiss naturalist [[Conrad Gessner]] had used the [[Latin]] name ''Canaria'' for the species in his book ''[[Historia animalium (Gessner book)|Historia animalium]]''.<ref>{{cite book| last=Gesner | first=Conrad | author-link=Conrad Gessner | title=Historiae animalium liber III qui est de auium natura. Adiecti sunt ab initio indices alphabetici decem super nominibus auium in totidem linguis diuersis: & ante illos enumeratio auium eo ordiné quo in hoc volumine continentur | year=1555 | publisher= Froschauer | location=Zurich | language=Latin | page=234 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52661116 }}<!--Linnaeus cited a different edition.--></ref> The Atlantic canary is now one of eight species placed in the [[genus]] ''[[Serinus]]'' that was introduced in 1816 by the German naturalist [[Carl Ludwig Koch]]. The wild species is considered to be [[monotypic]]: no [[subspecies]] are recognised.<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=August 2024 | title=Finches, euphonias | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/finches/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=23 February 2025}}</ref>

The Atlantic canary's closest relative is the European serin, and the two can produce on average 25% fertile hybrids if crossed.

The bird is named after the Canary Islands. The islands' name is derived from the Latin name ''canariae insulae'' ("islands of dogs") used by [[Arnobius]], referring to the large dogs kept by the inhabitants of the islands.<ref name=oed>''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]''</ref> A legend of the islands, however, states that it was the conquistadors who named the islands after a fierce tribe inhabiting the largest island of the group, known as the 'Canarii'. The colour [[yellow|canary yellow]] is in turn named after the yellow [[domestic canary]], produced by a mutation which suppressed the melanins of the original dull greenish wild Atlantic canary colour.