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Genus of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gracupica is a genus of Asian birds in the family Sturnidae. It is sometimes merged with Sturnus or Sturnia.
Gracupica | |
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Black-collared starling (Gracupica nigricollis) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Sturnidae |
Genus: | Gracupica Lesson, 1831 |
Type species | |
Gracula melanoleuca[1] = Gracula nigricollis Lesson, 1831 |
The genus Gracupica was introduced in 1831 by the French naturalist René Lesson to accommodate the black-collared starling which is therefore the type species.[2][3] The genus name combines the Latin graculus meaning "jackdaw" with pica meaning "magpie".[4]
The genus contains four species.[5]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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![]() | Gracupica nigricollis | Black-collared starling | Brunei, Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam |
![]() | Gracupica contra | Indian pied myna | Indian subcontinent |
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Gracupica floweri | Siamese pied myna | mainland Southeast Asia |
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Gracupica jalla | Javan pied myna | southern Sumatra, Java, and Bali |
A 2021 study found that G. contra represents a species complex of 3 distinct species formerly thought to be subspecies of G. contra: the Indian pied myna (G. contra sensu stricto) from most of the Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar, and Yunnan in China; the Siamese pied myna (G. floweri) from Thailand and Cambodia, and the possibly extinct in the wild Javan pied myna (G. jalla), historically known from Java and Bali in Indonesia.[6] The International Ornithological Congress has accepted these results.[7]
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