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Red-billed blue magpie taxonomy
The Corvidae is the family of crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays and treepies.The family Corvidae was first described by William Elford Leach, MD, FRS (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836), an English zoologist and marine biologist, in the year 1820.
The family Corvidae comprises six subfamilies including Cissinae. The subfamily Cissinae comprises two genera, Urocissa and Cissa.
The genus Urocissa was first introduced by Jean Louis Cabanis (8 March 1816 – 20 February 1906), a German ornithologist, in the year 1850.
The genus Urocissa comprises five species, viz., Urocissa caerulea, Urocissa erythroryncha, Urocissa flavirostris, Urocissa whiteheadi and Urocissa ornata.
The species Urocissa erythroryncha was first described by Pieter Boddaert (1730 – 6 May 1795), a Dutch physician and naturalist, in the year 1783. The species Urocissa erythroryncha is polytypic and comprises five subspecies.
| Taxonomic classification | |
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| Binomial name: | Urocissa erythroryncha |
| Species: | U. erythroryncha |
| Genus: | Urocissa |
| Subfamily: | - |
| Family: | Corvidae |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Class: | Aves |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
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| 1.Red-billed blue magpie - Urocissa erythrorhyncha Image by Blake Matheson |
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| 2.Red-billed blue magpie - Urocissa erythrorhyncha Image by Charles Lam |
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| 3.Red-billed blue magpie - Urocissa erythrorhyncha Image by David Cook |
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| 4.Red-billed blue magpie - Urocissa erythrorhyncha Image by Charles Lam |
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| 5.Red-billed blue magpie - Urocissa erythrorhyncha Image by Patty McGann |
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| 6.Red-billed blue magpie - Urocissa erythrorhyncha Image by soumyajit nandy |
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| 7.Red-billed blue magpie - Urocissa erythrorhyncha Image by Aaron Maizlish |
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| 8.Red-billed blue magpie - Urocissa erythrorhyncha Image by Aaron Maizlish |
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| 9.Red-billed blue magpie - Urocissa erythrorhyncha Image by Kishore Bhargava |
1.Red-billed blue magpie image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/34328261@N02/3211080193/in/photostream/ (cropped)
Author: Blake Matheson | License: CC BY-NC 2.0 as on 6/28/18
2.Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Urocissa_erythrorhyncha.jpg (cropped)
Author: Charles Lam | License: CC BY-SA 2.0 as on 6/28/18
3.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kookr/16789002642/ (cropped)
Author: David Cook | License: CC BY-NC 2.0 as on 6/28/18
4.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kclama/3307077639/ (cropped)
Author: Charles Lam | License: CC BY-SA 2.0 as on 6/28/18
5.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pattymc/6915410176/ (cropped)
Author: Patty McGann | License: CC BY-NC 2.0 as on 6/28/18
6.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/snandy_81/14916228819/ (cropped)
Author: soumyajit nandy | License: CC BY-SA 2.0 as on 6/28/18
7.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/amaizlish/8681593841/ (cropped)
Author: Aaron Maizlish | License: CC BY-NC 2.0 as on 6/28/18
8.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/amaizlish/14342808005/ (cropped)
Author: Aaron Maizlish | License: CC BY-NC 2.0 as on 6/28/18
9.Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kbhargava/13622159884/ (cropped)
Image author: Kishore Bhargava | License: CC BY-NC 2.0 as on 6/28/18
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