Purplish-backed Jay / Cyanocorax beecheii
WBN 
Purplish-backed Jay
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Protonym: Pica Beecheii Zool.J. 4 p.353
Taxonomy: Passeriformes / Corvidae / Cyanocorax
Taxonomy Code: pubjay1
Type Locality: Montereale [= Mazatlan, Sinaloa or San Bias, Nayarit, Mexico].
Author: Vigors
Publish Year: 1829
IUCN Status: Least Concern
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.
beecheii / beecheyi / beecheyii / beechii
Rear-Adm. Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856) British geographer, explorer in the Pacific 1825-1828, President of the Royal Geographical Society 1855-1856 (syn. Catamenia inornata, Cyanocorax).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
