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Cyanocorax

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Cyanocorax

Plush-crested jay, Cyanocorax chrysops
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Corvidae
Genus:	Cyanocorax F. Boie, 1826
Type species
Corvus pileatus^[1] Temminck, 1821
Species
see text

Cyanocorax is a genusofNew 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[edit]

The genus contains 17 species:^[6]

Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
Cyanocorax melanocyaneus	Bushy-crested jay	Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua
Cyanocorax sanblasianus	San Blas jay	Mexico
Cyanocorax yucatanicus	Yucatan jay	Yucatán Peninsula
Cyanocorax beecheii	Purplish-backed jay	northwestern Mexico
Cyanocorax violaceus	Violaceous jay	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela
Cyanocorax caeruleus	Azure jay	south-eastern Brazil (São Paulo to Rio Grande do Sul), far eastern Paraguay and far north-eastern Argentina
Cyanocorax cyanomelas	Purplish jay	northern Argentina, Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay and southeastern Peru
Cyanocorax cristatellus	Curl-crested jay	northeastern Brazil
Cyanocorax dickeyi	Tufted jay	Sierra Madre Occidental of Sinaloa and Durango in Mexico
Cyanocorax affinis	Black-chested jay	Colombia, northwestern Venezuela, Panama and far eastern Costa Rica
Cyanocorax mystacalis	White-tailed jay	Ecuador and Peru
Cyanocorax cayanus	Cayenne jay	Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela
Cyanocorax heilprini	Azure-naped jay	Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela
Cyanocorax chrysops	Plush-crested jay	southwestern Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and northeastern Argentina
Cyanocorax cyanopogon	White-naped jay	Brazil
Cyanocorax luxuosus	Green jay	southern Texas to Honduras
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[edit]

^ "Corvidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.

^ 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.

^ Jobling, J.A. (2015). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Archived from the original on November 8, 2015.

^ Boie, Friedrich (1826). "Generalübersicht". Isis von Oken (in German). 1826. Col 975.

^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-list of birds of the world. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 220.

^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Crows, mudnesters, birds-of-paradise". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 May 2018.

^ dos Anjos, L. (2018). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas)". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 16 May 2018.

^ Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. 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[edit]

Data related to Cyanocorax at Wikispecies
Media related to Cyanocorax at Wikimedia Commons

Extant species of family Corvidae

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Subclass: Neornithes
Superorder: Neognathae
Order: Passeriformes

Family Corvidae

Choughs

Pyrrhocorax

Treepies

Crypsirina	Hooded treepie (C. cucullata) Black racket-tailed treepie (C. temia)
Dendrocitta	Andaman treepie (D. bayleyi) Bornean treepie (D. cinerascens) Grey treepie (D. formosae) Black-faced treepie (D. frontalis) White-bellied treepie (D. leucogastra) Sumatran treepie (D. occipitalis) Rufous treepie (D. vagabunda)
Platysmurus	Malayan black magpie (P. leucopterus) Bornean black magpie (P. aterrimus)
Temnurus	Ratchet-tailed treepie (T. temnurus)

Oriental
magpies

Cissa

Urocissa

Old World jays

Garrulus

Podoces
(Ground jays)

Ptilostomus

Piapiac (P. afer)

Stresemann's
bushcrow

Zavattariornis

Stresemann's bushcrow (Z. stresemanni)

Family Corvidae (continued)

Nutcrackers

Nucifraga

Holarctic
magpies

Pica

True crows

Corvus

Australian and Melanesian species: Little crow (C. bennetti); Australian raven (C. coronoides); Bismarck crow (C. insularis); Brown-headed crow (C. fuscicapillus); Bougainville crow (C. meeki); Little raven (C. mellori); New Caledonian crow (C. moneduloides); Torresian crow (C. orru); Forest raven (C. tasmanicus); Grey crow (C. tristis); Long-billed crow (C. validus); White-billed crow (C. woodfordi)

Pacific island species: Hawaiian crow (C. hawaiiensis); Mariana crow (C. kubaryi)

Tropical Asian species: Slender-billed crow (C. enca); Small crow (C. samarensis); Palawan crow (C. pusillus); Flores crow (C. florensis); Large-billed crow (C. macrorhynchos); Eastern jungle crow (C. levaillantii); Indian jungle crow (C. culminatus); House crow (C. splendens); Collared crow (C. torquatus); Piping crow (C. typicus); Banggai crow (C. unicolor); Violet crow (C. violaceus)

Eurasian and North African species: Mesopotamian crow (C. capellanus); Hooded crow (C. cornix); Carrion crow (C. corone); Rook (C. frugilegus); Eastern carrion crow (C. orientalis); Fan-tailed raven (C. rhipidurus); Brown-necked raven (C. ruficollis)

Holarctic species: Common raven (C. corax)

North and Central American species: American crow (C. brachyrhynchos); Chihuahuan raven (C. cryptoleucus); Tamaulipas crow (C. imparatus); Jamaican crow (C. jamaicensis); White-necked crow (C. leucognaphalus); Cuban palm crow (C. minutus); Cuban crow (C. nasicus); Fish crow (C. ossifragus); Hispaniolan palm crow (C. palmarum); Sinaloan crow (C. sinaloae)

Tropical African species: White-necked raven (C. albicollis); Pied crow (C. albus); Cape crow (C. capensis); Thick-billed raven (C. crassirostris); Somali crow (C. edithae)

Jackdaws

Coloeus

Daurian jackdaw (C. dauuricus)
Western jackdaw (C. monedula)

Family Corvidae (continued)

Azure-winged
magpies

Cyanopica

Grey jays

Perisoreus

New World jays

Aphelocoma (Scrub jays)	California scrub jay (A. californica) Island scrub jay (A. insularis) Woodhouse's scrub jay (A. woodhouseii) Florida scrub jay (A. coerulescens) Transvolcanic jay (A. ultramarina) Unicolored jay (A. unicolor) Mexican jay (A. wollweberi)
Calocitta (Magpie-Jays)	Black-throated magpie-jay (C. colliei) White-throated Magpie-jay (C. formosa)
Cyanocitta	Blue jay (C. cristata) Steller's jay (C. stelleri)
Cyanocorax	Black-chested jay (C. affinis) Purplish-backed jay (C. beecheii) Azure jay (C. caeruleus) Cayenne jay (C. cayanus) Plush-crested jay (C. chrysops) Curl-crested jay (C. cristatellus) Purplish jay (C. cyanomelas) White-naped jay (C. cyanopogon) Tufted jay (C. dickeyi) Azure-naped jay (C. heilprini) Bushy-crested jay (C. melanocyaneus) Brown jay (C. morio) White-tailed jay (C. mystacalis) San Blas jay (C. sanblasianus) Violaceous jay (C. violaceus) Green jay (C. ynca) Yucatan jay (C. yucatanicus)
Cyanolyca	Silvery-throated jay (C. argentigula) Black-collared jay (C. armillata) Azure-hooded jay (C. cucullata) White-throated jay (C. mirabilis) Dwarf jay (C. nana) Beautiful jay (C. pulchra) Black-throated jay (C. pumilo) Turquoise jay (C. turcosa) White-collared jay (C. viridicyana)
Gymnorhinus	Pinyon jay (G. cyanocephalus)

Genera of corvides and their extinct allies

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Order: Passeriformes
Suborder: Passeri
Infraorder: Corvides

Corvides

Campephagidae	Campephaga Campochaera Ceblepyris Celebesica Coracina Cyanograucalus Edolisoma Lalage Lobotos Malindangia Pericrocotus
Cinclosomatidae	Cinclosoma Ptilorrhoa
Eulacestomatidae	Eulacestoma
Falcunculidae	Falcunculus
Mohouidae	Mohoua
Neosittidae	Daphoenositta
Oreoicidae	Aleadryas Oreoica Ornorectes
Oriolidae	†Longmornis Oriolus Pitohui Sphecotheres †Turnagra
Pachycephalidae	Colluricincla Coracornis Melanorectes Pachycephala Pseudorectes
Paramythiidae	Oreocharis Paramythia
Psophodidae	Androphobus Psophodes
Malaconotoidea	See below ↓
Corvoidea	See below ↓