Siamese pied myna
Species of bird
Siamese pied myna | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Sturnidae |
Genus: | Gracupica |
Species: | G. floweri |
Binomial name | |
Gracupica floweri (Sharpe, 1897) |
The Siamese pied myna (Gracupica floweri) is a species of starling in the family Sturnidae. Its plumage is black and white, with a black collar. It is found in Myanmar and China to Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. It previously was considered a subspecies of the pied myna, which has now been split into three species.[1] It can be distinguished from the Indian pied myna (G. contra) and Javan pied myna (G. jalla) by more extensive white streaking on its forehead from both and a wider extent of bare red-orange facial skin around the eye compared to G. contra, but much less compared to G. jalla.[2]
References
- ^ "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 28 May 2021.
- ^ Baveja, Pratibha; Garg, Kritika M.; Chattopadhyay, Balaji; Sadanandan, Keren R.; Prawiradilaga, Dewi M.; Yuda, Pramana; Lee, Jessica G. H.; Rheindt, Frank E. (2021). "Using historical genome-wide DNA to unravel the confused taxonomy in a songbird lineage that is extinct in the wild". Evolutionary Applications. 14 (3): 698–709. doi:10.1111/eva.13149. ISSN 1752-4571. PMC 7980273. PMID 33767745.