Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Passeriformes > Fringillidae > Linaria > Linaria yemenensisLinaria yemenensis (Yemen Linnet)Synonyms: Acanthis yemenensis; Acanthis yemenensis yemenensis; Carduelis yemenensis; Pseudacanthis yemenensis The Yemen linnet (Linaria yemenensis) is a species of finch in the Fringillidae family.It is found in Saudi Arabia and Yemen.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. The Yemen linnet was formerly placed in the genus Carduelis but was moved to the genus Linaria based on a phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 3.10272 EDGE Score: 1.41165 |
Adult Weight [1] | 14 grams | Male Weight [3] | 14 grams | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [2] | Frugivore, Granivore | Diet - Fruit [2] | 20 % | Diet - Seeds [2] | 80 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 30 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 70 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Clutch Size [1] | 3 |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Al-Mahwit |
Yemen |
A1, A2, A3, B2, B3 |
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Ibb: Dhi Sufal |
Yemen |
A1, A2, A3, B2, B3 |
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Jabal Faifa |
Saudi Arabia |
A1, A2, B2, B3 |
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Jabal Qaha |
Saudi Arabia |
B3 |
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Jabal Shibam |
Yemen |
A1, A2, A3, B2, B3 |
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Jabal Sumarah: Wadi Rafood: Wadi Bana |
Yemen |
A1, A2, A3, B2, B3 |
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Kawkaban: Shibam |
Yemen |
A1, A2, A3, B2, B3 |
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Raydah escarpment |
Saudi Arabia |
A1, A2, A3, B2, B3 |
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Taif escarpment |
Saudi Arabia |
A1, A2, A3, B1iv, B2, B3 |
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Wadi al-Birayn |
Yemen |
A2, A3, B2, B3 |
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Wadi Turabah and Jabal Ibrahim |
Saudi Arabia |
A1, A2, A3, B2, B3 |
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Name |
Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
Eastern Afromontane |
Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe |
No |
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Horn of Africa |
Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Oman, Somalia, Yemen |
No |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona. ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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