Avibase: Aphelocoma wollweberi [wollweberi or gracilis] (Mexican Jay [wollweberi or gracilis])

Mexican Jay [wollweberi or gracilis]

Aphelocoma wollweberi [wollweberi or gracilis] (= Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi) Kaup, JJ 1855

Classification

Order:
  Passeriformes
Family:
  Corvidae
Genus:
   Aphelocoma
Scientific:
  Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi

Original description

Citation:
Kaup, JJ 1855

Reference:
J. f. Orn. 2, no.12, suppl. p.lv,footnote

Protonym:
Aphelocoma wollweberi

Type locality:
Mexico; restricted by Pitelka (1951, Univ. California, Publ. Zool. 50, p. 330) to Valparaiso Mountains, Zacatecas.

Link:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49195#page/1197/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
0A69959AF9878C0E

Avibase ID:
avibase-0A69959A

Short link:
https://avibase.ca/0A69959A

Taxonomic Serial Number:
TSN: 925980

Geographic range:

Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi: mountains of western Mexico (southeastern Sonora to Durango, Zacatecas, and northern Jalisco)
Aphelocoma wollweberi gracilis: mountains of west-central Mexico (eastern Nayarit and northern Jalisco)

Source: Clements checklist

English:
Mexican Jay [wollweberi or gracilis]
French:
Geai du Mexique [wollweberi ou gracilis]

Authorities recognizing this taxonomic concept:

Avibase taxonomic concepts (current): Mexican Jay [wollweberi or gracilis] ( Aphelocoma wollweberi [wollweberi or gracilis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2023 (May 2023): Mexican Jay [wollweberi or gracilis] ( Aphelocoma wollweberi [wollweberi or gracilis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2024 (Oct 2024): Mexican Jay [wollweberi or gracilis] ( Aphelocoma wollweberi [wollweberi or gracilis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 2025 (Nov 2025): Mexican Jay [wollweberi or gracilis] ( Aphelocoma wollweberi [wollweberi or gracilis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 03 (March 2015): Mexican Jay [wollweberi or gracilis] ( Aphelocoma wollweberi [wollweberi or gracilis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 04 (Aug 2016): Mexican Jay [wollweberi or gracilis] ( Aphelocoma wollweberi [wollweberi or gracilis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 05 (Jan 2017): Mexican Jay [wollweberi or gracilis] ( Aphelocoma wollweberi [wollweberi or gracilis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 06 (Feb 2018): Mexican Jay [wollweberi or gracilis] ( Aphelocoma wollweberi [wollweberi or gracilis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 07 (Feb 2020): Mexican Jay [wollweberi or gracilis] ( Aphelocoma wollweberi [wollweberi or gracilis])
Avibase taxonomic concepts v. 08 (Feb 2021): Mexican Jay [wollweberi or gracilis] ( Aphelocoma wollweberi [wollweberi or gracilis])
Avilist 2025: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v5 (Dec 2020): Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6 (Dec 2021): Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v6b (Jul 2022): Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v7 (Dec 2022): Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v8 (Dec 2023): Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v9 (Oct 2024): Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
HBW and BirdLife Taxonomic Checklist v10 (Oct 2025): Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
Howard and Moore 4th edition (vol. 1-2): Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2): Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (03/07/2017): Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2017): Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
Handbook of the Birds of the World and Birdlife (Dec 2018): Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.2: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.3: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 6.4: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 7.1: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 7.2: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 7.3: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 8.1: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 8.2: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 9.1: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 9.2: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 10.1: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 10.2: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 11.1: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 11.2: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 12.1: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 12.2: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 13.1: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 13.2: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.1: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 14.2: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 15.1: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]
IOC World Bird Names, version 15.2: Aphelocoma wollweberi wollweberi [version 1]

Taxonomic status:

Species status: subspecies group (sometimes a species)

This taxon is a subspecies of Aphelocoma wollweberi [wollweberi]

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