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genus

true crows
Corvus Linnaeus, 1758

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Chordata - chordates »  class Aves - birds »  order Passeriformes - perching birds »  family Corvidae - crows and jays

Scientific synonyms

Anomalocorax Fitzinger, 1863
Archicorax Gloger, 1842
Corax Ledru, 1810
Corone Kaup, 1829
Corvultur Lesson, 1831
Frugilegus Selys-Longchamps, 1842
Gymnocorax Sundevall, 1872
Gymnocorvus Lesson, 1831
Heterocorax Sharpe, 1877
Macrocorax Sharpe, 1877

Included taxa

Number of records: 50

species Corvus albicollis Latham, 1790 - White-necked Raven

Corvus albicollis

species Corvus albus Müller, 1776 - Pied Crow

Corvus albus

species Corvus bennetti North, 1901 - Little Crow
species Corvus brachyrhynchos C. L. Brehm, 1822 - American Crow

Corvus brachyrhynchos

species Corvus capensis M. H. C. Lichtenstein, 1823 - Cape Crow

Corvus capensis

species Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758 - Northern Raven

Corvus corax

species Corvus cornix Linnaeus, 1758 - Hooded Crow

Corvus cornix

species Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 - Carrion Crow

Corvus corone

species Corvus coronoides Vigors & Horsfield, 1827 - Australian Raven

Corvus coronoides

species Corvus crassirostris Rüppell, 1836 - Thick-billed Raven

Corvus crassirostris

species Corvus cryptoleucus Couch, 1854 - Chihuahuan Raven

Corvus cryptoleucus

species Corvus culminatus Sykes, 1832 - Indian Jungle Crow

Corvus culminatus

species Corvus edithae Phillips, 1895 - Somali Crow

Corvus edithae

species Corvus enca (Horsfield, 1821) - Slender-billed Crow
species Corvus florensis Büttikofer, 1894 - Flores Crow
species Corvus frugilegus Linnaeus, 1758 - Rook

Corvus frugilegus

species Corvus fuscicapillus G. R. Gray, 1859 - Brown-headed Crow
species Corvus hawaiiensis Peale, 1848 - Hawaiian Crow

Corvus hawaiiensis

species Corvus imparatus J. L. Peters, 1929 - Tamaulipas Crow
species Corvus insularis Heinroth, 1903 - Bismarck Crow
species Corvus jamaicensis J. F. Gmelin, 1788 - Jamaican Crow
species Corvus kubaryi Reichenow, 1885 - Mariana Crow
species Corvus leucognaphalus Daudin, 1800 - White-necked Crow
species Corvus levaillantii Lesson, 1831 - Eastern Jungle Crow
species Corvus macrorhynchos Wagler, 1827 - Large-billed Crow

Corvus macrorhynchos

species Corvus meeki Rothschild, 1904 - Bougainville Crow
species Corvus mellori Mathews, 1912 - Little Raven

Corvus mellori

species Corvus minutus Gundlach, 1852 - Cuban Palm Crow
species Corvus moneduloides Lesson, 1831 - New Caledonian Crow
species Corvus nasicus Temminck, 1826 - Cuban Crow
species Corvus orru Bonaparte, 1850 - Torresian Crow

Corvus orru

species Corvus ossifragus A. Wilson, 1812 - Fish Crow
species Corvus palmarum Württemberg, 1835 - Hispaniolan Palm Crow
species Corvus rhipidurus Hartert, 1918 - Fan-tailed Raven
species Corvus ruficollis Lesson, 1831 - Brown-necked Raven

Corvus ruficollis

species Corvus sinaloae L. I. Davis, 1958 - Sinaloa Crow
species Corvus splendens Vieillot, 1817 - House Crow

Corvus splendens

species Corvus tasmanicus Mathews, 1912 - Forest Raven
species Corvus torquatus Lesson, 1831 - Collared Crow
species Corvus tristis Lesson & Garnot, 1827 - Grey Crow
species Corvus typicus (Bonaparte, 1853) - Piping Crow

Corvus typicus

species Corvus unicolor (Rothschild & Hartert, 1900) - Banggai Crow
species Corvus validus Bonaparte, 1850 - Long-billed Crow
species Corvus violaceus Bonaparte, 1850 - Violet Crow
species Corvus woodfordi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1887) - White-billed Crow

Fossil taxa

species Corvus fossilis Giebel, 1847
species Corvus hungaricus Lambrecht, 1916
species Corvus moravicus Mlíkovský, 1995
species Corvus pliocaenus (Portis, 1889)
Tertiary: Middle Pliocene – Quaternary: Chibanian
species Corvus simionescui Kessler, 1984

Links and literature

EN Australian Faunal Directory [cbfd0fa2-4ade-49fd-a282-3bfb194325cb]

ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Corvus Linnaeus, 1758]
Data retrieved on: 31 January 2015
EN Gill F., Donsker D. & Rasmussen P. (eds): IOC World Bird List 11.1 [http://www.worldbirdnames.org/] [as Corvus Linnaeus, 1758]
Data retrieved on: 22 April 2021

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