Corvus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Droege, G., Corvids of the World

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Corvus Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Droege, G., Corvids of the World

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Distribution

Africa East Tropical Africa ‒ nativeA; Macaronesia (Canary Is. (Canary Is. ‒ nativeA), Cape Verde (Cape Verde ‒ nativeA)); Northeast Tropical Africa ‒ nativeA; Northern Africa ‒ nativeA; South Tropical Africa ‒ nativeA; Southern Africa ‒ nativeA; West Tropical Africa ‒ nativeA; West-Central Tropical Africa ‒ nativeA; Western Indian Ocean (Madagascar (Madagascar ‒ nativeA)), Asia-Temperate Arabian Peninsula ‒ nativeA; Caucasus ‒ nativeA; China ‒ nativeA; Eastern Asia (Japan ‒ nativeA, Korea ‒ nativeA, Nansei-shoto (Nansei-shoto ‒ nativeA), Taiwan (Taiwan ‒ nativeA)); Middle Asia ‒ nativeA; Mongolia (Mongolia (Mongolia ‒ nativeA)); Russian Far East ‒ nativeA; Siberia ‒ nativeA; Western Asia ‒ nativeA, Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent (Assam (Assam ‒ nativeA), Bangladesh (Bangladesh ‒ nativeA), East Himalaya (Arunachal Pradesh ‒ nativeA, Bhutan ‒ nativeA), India ‒ nativeA, Maldives (Maldives ‒ nativeA), Nepal (Nepal ‒ nativeA), Pakistan (Pakistan ‒ nativeA), Sri Lanka (Sri Lanka ‒ nativeA), West Himalaya ‒ native); Indo-China (Andaman Is. (Andaman Is. ‒ nativeA), Cambodia (Cambodia ‒ nativeA), Laos (Laos ‒ nativeA), Myanmar (Myanmar ‒ nativeA), Thailand (Thailand ‒ nativeA), Vietnam (Vietnam ‒ nativeA)); Malesia (Borneo ‒ nativeA, Jawa (Jawa ‒ nativeA), Lesser Sunda Is. (Lesser Sunda Is. ‒ nativeA), Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia ‒ nativeA), Maluku (Maluku ‒ nativeA), Philippines (Philippines ‒ nativeA), Sulawesi (Sulawesi ‒ nativeA), Sumatera (Sumatera ‒ nativeA)); Papuasia ‒ nativeA, Australasia Australia (New South Wales ‒ nativeA, Northern Territory (Northern Territory ‒ nativeA), Queensland (Queensland ‒ nativeA), South Australia (South Australia ‒ nativeA), Tasmania (Tasmania ‒ nativeA), Victoria (Victoria ‒ nativeA), Western Australia (Western Australia ‒ nativeA)); New Zealand (New Zealand North (New Zealand North ‒ introduced: naturalizedA), New Zealand South (New Zealand South ‒ introduced: naturalizedA)), Europe nativeA, Northern America nativeA, Pacific North-Central Pacific (Hawaii (Hawaiian Is. ‒ nativeA)); Northwestern Pacific (Marianas ‒ nativeA); Southwestern Pacific (New Caledonia (New Caledonia ‒ nativeA)), Southern America Caribbean (Cuba (Cuba ‒ nativeA), Dominican Republic (Dominican Republic ‒ nativeA), Haiti (Haiti ‒ nativeA), Jamaica (Jamaica ‒ nativeA), Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico ‒ nativeA), Turks-Caicos Is. (Turks-Caicos Is. ‒ nativeA)); Central America (Belize (Belize ‒ nativeA), El Salvador (El Salvador ‒ nativeA), Guatemala (Guatemala ‒ nativeA), Honduras (Honduras ‒ nativeA), Nicaragua (Nicaragua ‒ nativeA))

Description

Corvus is an exceptional songbird genus in that it contains members (i.e.C. brachyrhynchos, C. ossifragus) that exhibit three rows of subalular coverts instead of the usual oscininen umber of two. The extra row consistso f three or four plumes lying between the mediansa nd marginalsa ssociatedw ith primaries 6, 7, 8, and 9. By definition of George & Casler (1972) these are "lessers," but whether they are homologous with the lessers of more primitive birds is most uncertain.B

Brood parasite

Ectoparasite

Philopterus corvi (Linnaeus, 1758)F Philopterus leptomelas (Nitzsch, 1866)F Philopterus albidus (Piaget, 1880)F Philopterus atratus Nitzsch, 1818F,G Philopterus clayae R.D. Price & Hellenthal, 1998F Philopterus lahorensis Ansari, 1955F Philopterus ocellatus (Scopoli, 1763)F Philopterus dalgleishi R.D. Price & Hellenthal, 1998F Philopterus craigi R.D. Price & Hellenthal, 1998F Philopterus extraneus (Piaget, 1885)F Philopterus palmai R.D. Price & Hellenthal, 1998F Philopterus osborni R.L. Edwards, 1952F Myrsidea anaspila (Nitzsch, 1866)H Colpocephalum fregili Denny, 1842H Myrsidea bakttitar (Ansari, 1951)H Myrsidea isostoma (Nitzsch, 1866)H Myrsidea trithorax (Piaget, 1885)I Menacanthus gonophaeus (Burmeister, 1838)I Brueelia afzali Ansari, 1957J Brueelia argula (Burmeister, 1838)K

Bibliography

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