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Boat-tailed or Great-tailed Grackle
Quiscalus [mexicanus or major] (= Quiscalus mexicanus) (Gmelin, JF 1788)
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Passeriformes
Family:
Icteridae
Genus:
Quiscalus
Scientific:
Quiscalus mexicanus
Classification
Order:Passeriformes
Family:
Icteridae
Genus:
Quiscalus
Scientific:
Quiscalus mexicanus
Original description
Citation:
(Gmelin, JF 1788)
Reference:
Systema Naturae ed. 13, vol. 1, part 1
Protonym:
C[orvus] mexicanus
Type locality:
'in nova Hispania' (cf. Peters, 1929, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 42, p. 121) ; restricted to region about Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico, by Lowery, 1938, Occas. Papers Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ., no. 1, p. 4.
Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/10285#page/387/mode/1up
Avibase identifiers
Avibase ID:
C7E3FFDAA4BD8426
Avibase ID:
avibase-C7E3FFDA
Short link:
https://avibase.ca/C7E3FFDA
Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 179109
Geographic range:
- Quiscalus mexicanus mexicanus: southern Mexico (eastern Jalisco and San Luis Potosí) to northern Nicaragua
- Quiscalus mexicanus monsoni: southeastern Arizona to western Texas and Mexican Plateau to Jalisco and Guanajuato
- Quiscalus mexicanus prosopidicola: southeastern New Mexico to southern Texas (USA), and Coahuila, San Luis Potosí, and southern Tamaulipas (northern Mexico)
- Quiscalus mexicanus loweryi: coastal Yucatán Peninsula, Belize, and adjacent offshore islands
- Quiscalus mexicanus peruvianus: Pacific coast of Costa Rica to northwestern Peru and northwestern Venezuela
- Quiscalus mexicanus graysoni: coastal northwestern Mexico (Sinaloa)
- Quiscalus mexicanus nelsoni: southeastern California to southern Arizona and western Mexico (northeastern Baja California and southern Sonora)
- Quiscalus mexicanus obscurus: coastal southwestern Mexico (Nayarit to Guerrero)
- Quiscalus major major: coastal Texas and Louisiana
- Quiscalus major torreyi: coastal New York southward to northeastern Florida
- Quiscalus major alabamensis: coastal Mississippi to northwestern Florida
- Quiscalus major westoni: north-central to southern Florida
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Source: Clements checklist
Boat-tailed or Great-tailed Grackle
German:
Bootschwanz-/Großschwanzgrackel
Spanish:
Zanate Marismeño/Mexicano
Spanish (Spain):
Zanate marismeño/mexicano
French:
Quiscale à longue queue ou Q. des marais
Icelandic:
Glæsi-/bátsóti
Japanese (romaji):
kitaonagakuromukudorimodoki/onagakuromukudorimodoki
Japanese:
キタオナガクロムクドリモドキ/オナガクロムクドリモドキ
Dutch:
Bootstaarttroepiaal/Langstaarttroepiaal
Norwegian:
båthaletrupial/storhaletrupial
Polish:
wilgowron żaglosterny/meksykański
Portuguese (Portugal):
rabo-de-quilha-dos-pântanos/rabo-de-quilha-mexicano
Russian:
Лодкохвостый/Большехвостый гракл
Slovak:
vlhovec pobrežný/člnkochvostý
Serbian:
Širokorepi/dugorepi kukuruzar
Swedish:
större båtstjärt/mexikobåtstjärt
Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:
| American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 11th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 12th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Megaquiscalus major) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 13th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Megaquiscalus major) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 14th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Megaquiscalus major) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 2nd edition (incl. 15th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Megaquiscalus major) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 3rd edition (1910): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Megaquiscalus major) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 3rd edition (incl. 16th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Megaquiscalus major) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 3rd edition (incl. 17th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Megaquiscalus major) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 3rd edition (incl. 18th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Megaquiscalus major) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (1931): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 19th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 20th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 21st suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 22nd suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 23rd suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 24th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 25th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 26th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 27th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 28th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 29th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 30th suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 4th edition (incl. 31st suppl.): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| American Ornithologists' Union 5th edition (1957): Boat-tailed Grackle ( Cassidix mexicanus) [version 1] |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Boat-tailed or Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus [mexicanus or major]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Boat-tailed or Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus [mexicanus or major]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Boat-tailed or Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus [mexicanus or major]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 01 (August 2013): Boat-tailed or Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus [mexicanus or major]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 02 (May 2014): Boat-tailed or Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus [mexicanus or major]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Boat-tailed or Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus [mexicanus or major]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Boat-tailed or Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus [mexicanus or major]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Boat-tailed or Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus [mexicanus or major]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Boat-tailed or Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus [mexicanus or major]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Boat-tailed or Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus [mexicanus or major]) |
| Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Boat-tailed or Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus [mexicanus or major]) |
| eBird version 1.50: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major/mexicanus) |
| eBird version 1.52: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major/mexicanus) |
| eBird version 1.53: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major/mexicanus) |
| eBird version 1.54: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major/mexicanus) |
| eBird version 1.55: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major/mexicanus) |
| eBird version 2015: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major/mexicanus) |
| eBird version 2016: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major/mexicanus) |
| eBird version 2017: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major/mexicanus) |
| eBird version 2018: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major/mexicanus) |
| eBird version 2019: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major/mexicanus) |
| eBird version 2021: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major/mexicanus) |
| eBird version 2022: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major/mexicanus) |
| eBird version 2023: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major/mexicanus) |
| eBird version 2024: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle ( Quiscalus major/mexicanus) |
Taxonomic status:
Species status: species group (sometimes a species)
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Other synonyms
See also the taxonomic synonyms table.
Czech: Vlhovec velkoocasý
Danish: Kragegrackel
German: Bootschwanz-/Großschwanzgrackel, Dohlengrackel
English: Boat-tailed Grackle, Boat-tailed or Great-tailed Grackle, Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle, great-tailed crow blackbird, Great-tailed Grackle
English, HBW: Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle
English (IOC): Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle
English (United States): Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle
Esperanto: Grandavosta kviskalo
Spanish: Zanate Marismeño/Mexicano, Zanate Mayor, zanate mexicano, Zenate Marismeño/Mexicano
Spanish (Colombia): Mariamulata
Spanish (Costa Rica): Clarinero o zanate grande
Spanish (Spain): Zanate marismeño/mexicano, Zenate marismeño/mexicano
Spanish (HBW): Boat-tailed/Great-tailed Grackle
Spanish (Honduras): Clarinero o zanate
Spanish (Mexico): Zanate Mayor, zanate mexicano
Spanish (Peru): Clarinero de Cola Grande
Spanish (Venezuela): Galandra
Finnish: Pitkäpyrstöturpiaali
French: Quiscale à longue queue, Quiscale à longue queue ou Q. des marais, Quiscale des marais ou Q. à longue queue
Hungarian: mexikói csónakfarkú
Icelandic: Glæsi-/bátsóti
Italian: Gracchio messicano
Japanese (romaji): kitaonagakuromukudorimodoki/onagakuromukudorimodoki, onagakuromukudorimodoki
Japanese: オナガクロムクドリモドキ, キタオナガクロムクドリモドキ/オナガクロムクドリモドキ
Scientific: Cassidix mexicanus, Corvus mexicanus, Megaquiscalus major, Quiscalus [mexicanus or major], Quiscalus major, Quiscalus major major, Quiscalus major/mexicanus, Quiscalus mexicanus, Quiscalus mexicanus mexicanus
Lithuanian: Didžiauodegis graklas
Mayan languages: kau
Dutch: Bootstaarttroepiaal/Langstaarttroepiaal, Langstaarttroepiaal
Norwegian: Båthaletrupial, båthaletrupial/storhaletrupial, Storhaletrupial
Polish: wilgowron meksykanski, wilgowron meksykański, wilgowron żaglosterny/meksykański
Portuguese (Portugal): rabo-de-quilha-dos-pântanos/rabo-de-quilha-mexicano
Russian: Большой вороний дрозд, Лодкохвостый кассик, Лодкохвостый/Большехвостый гракл
Slovak: Trupiálovec člnkochvostý, vlhovec pobrežný, vlhovec pobrežný/člnkochvostý
Serbian: Širokorepi/dugorepi kukuruzar
Swedish: Mexikobåtstjärt, Större båtstjärt, större båtstjärt/mexikobåtstjärt
Turkish: Denizci/büyük kuyruklu kiskal
Ukrainian: Гракл великохвостий
Chinese: 大尾拟八哥, 宽尾拟八哥
Chinese (Traditional): 大尾擬八哥
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