Unicolored jay
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| Species: | A. unicolor
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| Aphelocoma unicolor (Du Bus de Gisignies, 1847)
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The unicolored jay (Aphelocoma unicolor [2]) is an Aphelocoma jay native to cloud forests of northwestern Central America and southern and southeastern Mexico, from central Honduras west to central Guerrero, southern Veracruz and extreme southern San Luis Potosi. It is apparently a basal member of its genus (Rice et al. 2003).
References
- Rice, Nathan H.; Martínez-Meyer, Enrique & Peterson, A. Townsend (2003): Ecological niche differentiation in the Aphelocoma jays: a phylogenetic perspective. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 80(3): 369–383. doi:10.1046/j.1095-8312.2003.00242.x PDF fulltext
Footnotes
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- ^ Etymology: Aphelocoma, from Latinized Ancient Greek apheles- (from ἀφελής-) "simple" + Latin coma (from Greek kome κόμη) "hair", in reference to the lack of striped or banded feathers in this genus, compared to other jays. unicolor, Latin for "unicolored".
External links
- CONABIO: Unicolored jay drawing. Retrieved 2007-FEB-26.
- Article with unicolored jay
- RangeMaps & synopsis InfoNatura NatureServe
- Picture; Article
- Unicolored jay photo gallery VIREO
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