Cyanocorax

Cyanocorax
	Plush-crested jay, Cyanocorax chrysops
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Corvidae
Genus:	Cyanocorax; F. Boie, 1826
Species
	see text

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".^[1]^[2]

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.^[3]^[4]

Species[]

The genus contains 17 species:^[5]

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.^[6]^[7]

References[]

^ 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). Col 975.
^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-list of birds of the world. Volume 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 220. |volume= has extra text (help)
^ 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. Volume 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. pp. 240–241. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2. |volume= has extra text (help)

Madge, S.; H. Burn (1999). Crows and Jays. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-7136-5207-1.

External links[]

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

[1] 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.

[hbwkey-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.

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

[4] Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1962). Check-list of birds of the world. Volume 15. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 220. |volume= has extra text (help)

[ioc-5] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2018). "Crows, mudnesters, birds-of-paradise". World Bird List Version 8.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 16 May 2018.

[hbw-6] s 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.

[7] Dickinson, E.C.; Christidis, L., eds. (2014). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. pp. 240–241. ISBN 978-0-9568611-2-2. |volume= has extra text (help)

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Cyanocorax

Plush-crested jay, Cyanocorax chrysops
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Corvidae
Genus:	Cyanocorax F. Boie, 1826
Species
see text