Biology:Cyanocorax
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Short description: Genus of birds
| Cyanocorax | |
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| Plush-crested jay, Cyanocorax chrysops | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Corvidae |
| Genus: | Cyanocorax F. Boie, 1826 |
| Type species | |
| Corvus pileatus[1] Temminck, 1821
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Cyanocorax is a genus of New World jays, passerine birds in the family Corvidae. The generic name is derived from the Greek words κυανος (kuanos), meaning "dark blue," and κοραξ (korax), meaning "raven".[2][3]
It contains several closely related species that primarily are found in wooded habitats of Mexico and Central and South America, with the green jay just barely entering the United States .
The genus Cyanocorax was introduced by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1826, with the plush-crested jay as the type species.[4][5]
Species
The genus contains 17 species:[6]
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Cyanocorax melanocyaneus | Bushy-crested jay | Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua |
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Cyanocorax sanblasianus | San Blas jay | Mexico |
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Cyanocorax yucatanicus | Yucatan jay | Yucatán Peninsula |
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Cyanocorax beecheii | Purplish-backed jay | northwestern Mexico |
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Cyanocorax violaceus | Violaceous jay | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela |
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Cyanocorax caeruleus | Azure jay | south-eastern Brazil (São Paulo to Rio Grande do Sul), far eastern Paraguay and far north-eastern Argentina |
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Cyanocorax cyanomelas | Purplish jay | northern Argentina, Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay and southeastern Peru |
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Cyanocorax cristatellus | Curl-crested jay | northeastern Brazil |
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Cyanocorax dickeyi | Tufted jay | Sierra Madre Occidental of Sinaloa and Durango in Mexico |
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Cyanocorax affinis | Black-chested jay | Colombia, northwestern Venezuela, Panama and far eastern Costa Rica |
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Cyanocorax mystacalis | White-tailed jay | Ecuador and Peru |
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Cyanocorax cayanus | Cayenne jay | Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela |
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Cyanocorax heilprini | Azure-naped jay | Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela |
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Cyanocorax chrysops | Plush-crested jay | southwestern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina |
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Cyanocorax cyanopogon | White-naped jay | Brazil |
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Cyanocorax luxuosus | Green jay | southern Texas to Honduras |
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Cyanocorax yncas | Inca jay | Colombia and Venezuela through Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia |
Some ornithologists treat the green jay and the Inca jay as conspecific, with C. yncas luxuosus as the green jay and C. yncas yncas as the Inca jay.[7][8]
References
- ↑ "Corvidae". The Trust for Avian Systematics. https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=151.
- ↑ Holloway, Joel Ellis (2003). Dictionary of Birds of the United States: Scientific and Common Names. Timber Press. p. 79. ISBN 978-0-88192-600-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=O07_W9NF39MC.
- ↑ Jobling, J.A. (2015). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". in del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. et al.. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. http://www.hbw.com/dictionary/definition/cyanocorax.
- ↑ Boie, Friedrich (1826). "Generalübersicht" (in de). Isis von Oken: Col 975. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27511179.
- ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds (1962). Check-list of birds of the world. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 220. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14485593.
- ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds (2018). "Crows, mudnesters, birds-of-paradise". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/crows/.
- ↑ dos Anjos, L. (2018). "Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas)". in del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J. et al.. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. http://www.hbw.com/node/55804.
- ↑ The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. 2014. pp. 240–241. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2.
- Madge, S.; H. Burn (1999). Crows and Jays. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-7136-5207-1.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q844646 entry
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