List of Corvus species

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Skeleton of American crow (Museum of Osteology)

The following is a list of all currently recognized species within the passerine bird genus Corvus (the crows and ravens).

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Extant species

The genus contains 50 species: [1]

Fossil forms

The taxonomy of the C. antecorax/C. fossilis complex as well as the C. pliocaenus/C. betfianus/C. praecorax/C. simionescui, in particular the temporal succession and relationship to the living relatives, is not yet fully resolved. At least some of these "species" seem to have been direct ancestors of the living forms as listed above.

Former species

Formerly, some authorities also considered the following species as species within the genus Corvus:

References

  1. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Crows, mudnesters, birds-of-paradise". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  2. "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List" . Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  3. Note: Both the Bougainville crow and the white-billed crow share the same alternate name "Solomon Islands crow". They both live on the Solomon Islands; the Bougainville crow in the north and the white-billed crow in the south.
  4. Pavia, Marco (2020-11-15). "Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Cradle of Humankind during the Plio-Pleistocene transition, inferred from the analysis of fossil birds from Member 2 of the hominin-bearing site of Kromdraai (Gauteng, South Africa)" . Quaternary Science Reviews. 248: 106532. Bibcode:2020QSRv..24806532P. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106532. ISSN   0277-3791.
  5. "Why the Northwestern Crow Vanished Overnight | Audubon". www.audubon.org. 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2024-08-13.