Cyanopica

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Cyanopica
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Azure-winged magpie, Cyanopica cyanus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae
Genus: Cyanopica
Bonaparte, 1850
Type species
Corvus cyanus
Pallas, 1766
Species
  • Cyanopica cyanus
  • Cyanopica cooki

Cyanopica is a genus of magpie in the family Corvidae. They belong to a common lineage with the genus Perisoreus . [1]

The genus Cyanopica was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. [2] The type species was designated by George Gray in 1855 as Corvus cyanus Pallas, 1766, the azure-winged magpie. [3] [4] The generic name is derived from the Latin words cyanos, meaning "lapis lazuli", and pica, meaning "magpie". [5]

Species

The genus contains two species: [6]

Genus Cyanopica Bonaparte, 1850 – two species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Azure-winged magpie

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Cyanopica cyanus
(Pallas, 1776)
eastern Asia in most of China, Korea, Japan, and north into Mongolia and southern Siberia
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Size:

Habitat:

Diet:
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Iberian magpie

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Cyanopica cooki
Bonaparte, 1850
southwestern and central parts of the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain and Portugal Size:

Habitat:

Diet:
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References

  1. Ericson, Per G. P.; Jansén, Anna-Lee; Johansson, Ulf S.; Ekman, Jan (2005). "Inter-generic relationships of the crows, jays, magpies and allied groups (Aves: Corvidae) based on nucleotide sequence data" (PDF). Journal of Avian Biology. 36 (3): 222–234. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.493.5531 . doi:10.1111/j.0908-8857.2001.03409.x.
  2. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1850). Conspectus Generum Avium (in Latin). Vol. 1. Leiden: E.J. Brill. p. 382.
  3. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 64.
  4. Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 244.
  5. Jobling, James (2010). Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. Christopher Helm. pp.  128. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (December 2023). "Crows, mudnesters, birds-of-paradise". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 February 2024.