Cyanocorax Heilprini Bird

Cyanocorax Heilprini Bird

Cyanocorax Heilprini Bird

English Name:  Azure-naped Jay
Latin Name:  Cyanocorax heilprini
Protonym:  Cyanocorax heilprini Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 37 p.90
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Cyanocorax
Taxonomy Code:  aznjay1
Type Locality:  Rio Negro.
Author:  Gentry
Publish Year:  1885
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CYANOCORAX
(Corvidae; Ϯ Plush-crested Jay C. chrysops) Gr. κυανος kuanos   dark-blue; κοραξ korax, κορακος korakos  raven, crow  < κρωζω krōzō  to croak; "XIX. Fam. Garrulidae.  ...  Cyanocorax: Corvus pileatus  col. 57. u. s. w." (Boie 1826); "Cyanocorax Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, 19, part 10, col. 975. Type, by monotypy, Corvus pileatus Temminck = Pica chrysops Vieillot." (Blake in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 220) (see Cyanocitta).
Synon. Argurocitta, Calocitta, Cissilopha, Coronideus, Cyanocorvus, Cyanurus, Henocitta, Protocitta, Psilorhinus, Uroleuca, Xanthocitta, Xanthoura.

heilprini
Prof. Ansil (later Angelo) Heilprin (1853-1907) Hungarian/US palaeontologist, explorer, naturalist (Cyanocorax).

SUBSPECIES

Azure-naped Jay (Azure-naped)
Latin Name: Cyanocorax heilprini heilprini
heilprini
Prof. Ansil (later Angelo) Heilprin (1853-1907) Hungarian/US palaeontologist, explorer, naturalist (Cyanocorax).

Azure-naped Jay (Campina)
Latin Name: Cyanocorax heilprini hafferi
hafferi
Dr Jürgen Haffer (1932-2010) German geologist, palaeontologist, ornithologist (Cyanocorax).