Aves - Passeriformes - Corvidae
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Parent taxon: Corvidae according to H. J. M. Meijer et al. 2017
See also Baird 1992, Burney et al. 2008, Carroll 1988, Clements et al. 2017, Guthrie 1992, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Lambrecht 1933, Mlikovsky 2002, Morgan 1994, Olson and James 1982, Olson and Rasmussen 2001, Parmalee 1992, Shufeldt 1891, Wetmore 1924, Wetmore 1940, Wetmore 1956, Worthy 1997 and Worthy and Grant-Mackie 2003
Sister taxa: Aphelocoma, Corvinae, Cyanocitta, Cyanopica, Garrulinae, Garrulus, Gymnorhinus, Miocitta, Miocorvus, Nucifraga, Palaeocorax, Perisoreus, Pica, Protocitta, Pyrrhocorax
Subtaxa: Corvus albicollis Corvus albus Corvus annectens Corvus brachyrhynchos Corvus caurinus Corvus corax Corvus corone Corvus cryptoleucus Corvus frugilegus Corvus hungaricus Corvus leucognaphalus Corvus macrorhynchos Corvus monedula Corvus moneduloides Corvus moriorum Corvus nasicus Corvus ossifragus Corvus palmarum Corvus pliocaenus Corvus praecorax Corvus pumilis Corvus shufeldti
Type: Corvus corax
Ecology: volant omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (5 collections), the Bahamas (6), Canada (4: Newfoundland, Nunavut, Quebec), Cayman Islands (2), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Egypt (2), Finland (1), France (5), Greece (19), Greenland (1), Hungary (1), Indonesia (3), Italy (11), Japan (4), Madagascar (2), Monaco (1), New Zealand (10), Papua New Guinea (1), Portugal (1), Puerto Rico (1), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (3), South Africa (1), Spain (17), Sudan (2), the United Kingdom (16), United States (62: Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of France (2), Italy (1)
• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene of Hungary (1)
• Neogene of United States (1: Arizona)
Total: 192 collections including 255 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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