Species profile
Corvus cyanoleucus
Corvus cyanoleucus
Quick answer
COMMENTS: Allen (1889: 227) listed the above two formerly mounted specimens as syntypes of Corvus cyanoleucus Wied. Wied’s name is preoccupied by Corvus cyanoleucus Latham, 1801 = Grallina cyanoleuca, see Sharpe (1877: 137), and the next available name is Cyanocorax cristatellus (Temminck, 1823).
- Scientific name
- Corvus cyanoleucus
- Family
- Corvidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Corvus
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