Cyanopica

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

Cyanopica is a small genus of magpies 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]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Cyanopica cyanus	Azure-winged magpie	eastern Asia in most of China, Korea, Japan, and north into Mongolia and southern Siberia
	Cyanopica cooki	Iberian magpie	southwestern and central parts of the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain and Portugal

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.