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Cyanolyca

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Cyanolyca
Cyanolyca turcosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Corvidae
Subfamily: Cyanocoracinae
Genus: Cyanolyca
Cabanis, 1851
Type species
Cyanocorax armillatus[1]
Gray, 1845
Species

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Cyanolyca is a genus of small jays found in humid highland forests in southern Mexico, Central America and the Andes in South America. All are largely blue and have a black mask. They also possess black bills and legs and are skulking birds. They frequently join mixed-species flocks of birds.[2]

Taxonomy

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The genus Cyanolyca was introduced in 1851 by the German ornithologist Jean Cabanis.[3] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek κυανος/ kuanos meaning "dark-blue" with λυκος/lukos, a type of crow, perhaps the jackdaw, that was mentioned by Aristotle and Hesychius of Alexandria.[4] Cabanis did not specify a type species but in 1855 George Gray designated the type as Cyanocorax armillatus Gray, 1845, the black-collared jay.[5][6]

Species

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The genus contains nine species.[7]

ImageCommon nameScientific nameDistribution
White-throated jayCyanolyca mirabilis
Dwarf jayCyanolyca nanus
Black-throated jayCyanolyca pumilo
Silvery-throated jayCyanolyca argentigula
Azure-hooded jayCyanolyca cucullata
Beautiful jayCyanolyca pulchra
Black-collared jayCyanolyca armillata
Turquoise jayCyanolyca turcosa
White-collared jayCyanolyca viridicyanus

References

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  1. ↑ "Corvidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  2. ↑ Howell, Steve N.G.; Sophie Webb (1995). A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 541–542. ISBN 0-19-854012-4.
  3. ↑ Cabanis, Jean (1850–1851). Museum Heineanum : Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt (in German and Latin). Vol. 1. Halberstadt: R. Frantz. p. 223. For the publication date of volume 1 see: Dickinson, E.C.; Overstreet, L.K.; Dowsett, R.J.; Bruce, M.D. (2011). Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology: a Directory to the literature and its reviewers. Northampton, UK: Aves Press. pp. 80–81. ISBN 978-0-9568611-1-5.
  4. ↑ Jobling, James A. "Cyanolyca". The Key to Scientific Names. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Retrieved 20 March 2026.
  5. ↑ Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 62.
  6. ↑ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology.
  7. ↑ AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. Retrieved 20 March 2026.
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