Hawaiian Crow Corvus hawaiiensis Scientific name definitions
- EW Extinct in the Wild
- Names (22)
- Monotypic
Paul C. Banko, Donna L. Ball, and Winston E. Banko
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 2002
Text last updated January 1, 2002
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Species names in all available languages
| Language | Common name |
|---|---|
| Bulgarian | Хавайска врана |
| Catalan | corb de Hawaii |
| Croatian | havajska vrana |
| Dutch | Hawaïkraai |
| English | Hawaiian Crow |
| English (HAW) | ʻAlalā - Hawaiian Crow |
| English (United States) | Hawaiian Crow |
| Estonian | havai vares |
| French | Corneille d'Hawaï |
| French (Canada) | Corneille d'Hawaï |
| German | Hawaiikrähe |
| Japanese | ハワイガラス |
| Norwegian | hawaiikråke |
| Polish | wrona ogorzała |
| Russian | Гавайская ворона |
| Serbian | Havajska vrana (iščezla u prirodi) |
| Slovak | vrana havajská |
| Spanish | Cuervo Hawaiano |
| Spanish (Spain) | Cuervo hawaiano |
| Swedish | hawaiikråka |
| Turkish | Hawaii Kargası |
| Ukrainian | Крук гавайський |
Corvus hawaiiensis Peale, 1849
PROTONYM:
Corvus hawaiiensis
Peale, 1849. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. Vol. VIII: Mammalia and ornithology. 1st ed. 8, p.106.
TYPE LOCALITY:
a few miles inland from the village of Kaawaloa, Hawaii.
SOURCE:
Avibase, 2024
Definitions
- CORVUS
- corvus
- hawaiensis / hawaii / hawaiiensis
The Key to Scientific Names
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UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, misspellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
Originally Appeared in
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Figure 1. Breeding and nonbreeding distribution of the last 2 wild 'Alalä indicated by green circle.
Historically the species was distributed in forests along the western and southeastern (leeward) portions of Hawai‘i Island (light-green shading).
