Cyanopica Explained

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]

Species

The genus contains two species:^[6]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Cyanopica cyanus		eastern Asia in most of China, Korea, Japan, and north into Mongolia and southern Siberia
	Cyanopica cooki		southwestern and central parts of the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain and Portugal

Notes and References

1. Ericson . Per G. P. . Jansén . Anna-Lee . Johansson . Ulf S. . Ekman . Jan . 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2001.03409.x . Inter-generic relationships of the crows, jays, magpies and allied groups (Aves: Corvidae) based on nucleotide sequence data . 2005 . Journal of Avian Biology . 36 . 3 . 222–234. 10.1.1.493.5531 .
2. Book: Bonaparte, Charles Lucien . Charles Lucien Bonaparte . 1850 . Conspectus Generum Avium . 1 . Latin . E.J. Brill . Leiden . 382 .
3. Book: Gray, George Robert . George Robert Gray . 1855 . Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum . London . British Museum . 64 .
4. Book: Mayr . Ernst . Ernst Mayr . Greenway . James C. Jr . 1962 . Check-List of Birds of the World . 15 . Museum of Comparative Zoology . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 244 .
5. Book: Jobling, James. Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. Christopher Helm. 2010. 978-1-4081-2501-4. 128.
6. Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela C. Rasmussen . December 2023 . Crows, mudnesters, birds-of-paradise . IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 . International Ornithologists' Union . 6 February 2024 .