New Caledonian Crow

SCI Name:  Corvus moneduloides
Protonym:  Corvus moneduloides TraitedOrn. livr.5 p.329
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Corvus
Taxonomy Code:  neccro1
Type Locality:  no locality [= Balab, New Caledonia (Stresemann, 1953, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 29, p. 91)].
Author:  Lesson
Publish Year:  1831
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CORVUS
(Corvidae; Ϯ Common Raven C. corax) L. corvus  raven. In fable the Raven was originally white but, despite its supposed gift of prophecy, was turned into a black bird for its treachery. The Common or Northern Raven is the largest species of passerine bird; "48. CORVUS.  Rostrum convexum, cultratum, basi pennis setaceis tectum.  Lingua cartilaginea bifida." (Linnaeus 1758); "Corvus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 105. Type, by tautonymy, "Corvus", i.e. Corvus corax Linnaeus." (Blake & Vaurie in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 261).  This is the ninth diagnosed genus in avian taxonomy.  Linnaeus's Corvus comprised twelve species (C. Corax, C. Corone, C. frugilegus, C. Cornix, C. Monedula, C. benghalensis, C. glandarius, C. cristatus, C. Caryocatactes, C. Pica, C. paradisi, C. infaustus).     
Var. Cervus, Coruus.   
Synon. Amblycorax, Anomalocorax, Archicorax, Coloeus, Corax, Corone, Corvultur, Frugilegus, Gymnocorax, Gymnocorvus, Heterocorax, Macrocorax, Microcorax, Monedula, Nesocorax, Palaeocorax, Physocorax, Pterocorax, Rhinocorax, Sitocorax, Trypanocorax.

corvus
L. corvus raven.
● From a local name Caa Maa crow gull, for the Black-legged Kittiwake in the Shetlands (syn. Rissa tridactyla).

moneduloides
Specific name Corvus monedula Linnaeus, 1758; Gr. -οιδης -oidēs  resembling; "1.º  Le CHOUCAS; Corvus monedula   ...   2.º  Le CHOUCAS LUSTRÉ; Corvus moneduloides.  Bec très-renflé; queue longue; plumage noir bronzé." (Lesson 1831) (Corvus).