Coccothraustes
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Coccothraustes is a genus of the finch family (Fringillidae) that contains a single species:
The name of the genus Coccothraustes was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 based on tautonymy and the binomial name Loxia coccothraustes of Carl Linnaeus.