Cyanopica | |
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Azure-winged magpie, Cyanopica cyanus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Corvidae |
Genus: |
Cyanopica Bonaparte, 1850 |
Type species | |
Corvus cyanus
Pallas, 1766
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Species | |
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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]
The genus contains two species: [6]
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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Azure-winged magpie |
Cyanopica cyanus (Pallas, 1776) |
eastern
Asia in most of
China,
Korea,
Japan, and north into
Mongolia and southern
Siberia |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Iberian magpie |
Cyanopica cooki Bonaparte, 1850 |
southwestern and central parts of the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain and Portugal | Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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