American Crow

Here the details of the American Crow named bird below:

SCI Name:  Corvus brachyrhynchos
Protonym:  Corvus brachyrhynchos Beitr.Vogelkunde 2 p.56
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Corvus
Taxonomy Code:  amecro
Type Locality:  North America; restricted by Howell (1913, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 26, p. 200) to vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts.
Author:  Brehm, CL
Publish Year:  1822
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CORVUS
(Corvidae; Ϯ Common Raven C. corax) L. corvus  raven. In fable the Raven was originally white but, despite its supposed gift of prophecy, was turned into a black bird for its treachery. The Common or Northern Raven is the largest species of passerine bird; "48. CORVUS.  Rostrum convexum, cultratum, basi pennis setaceis tectum.  Lingua cartilaginea bifida." (Linnaeus 1758); "Corvus Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, p. 105. Type, by tautonymy, "Corvus", i.e. Corvus corax Linnaeus." (Blake & Vaurie in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 261).  This is the ninth diagnosed genus in avian taxonomy.  Linnaeus's Corvus comprised twelve species (C. Corax, C. Corone, C. frugilegus, C. Cornix, C. Monedula, C. benghalensis, C. glandarius, C. cristatus, C. Caryocatactes, C. Pica, C. paradisi, C. infaustus).     
Var. Cervus, Coruus.   
Synon. Amblycorax, Anomalocorax, Archicorax, Coloeus, Corax, Corone, Corvultur, Frugilegus, Gymnocorax, Gymnocorvus, Heterocorax, Macrocorax, Microcorax, Monedula, Nesocorax, Palaeocorax, Physocorax, Pterocorax, Rhinocorax, Sitocorax, Trypanocorax.

corvus
L. corvus raven.
● From a local name Caa Maa crow gull, for the Black-legged Kittiwake in the Shetlands (syn. Rissa tridactyla).

brachyrhinchus / brachyrhyncha / brachyrhynchos / brachyrhynchum
Gr. βραχυς brakhus  short; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.

SUBSPECIES

American Crow (hesperis)
SCI Name: Corvus brachyrhynchos hesperis
hesperis
L. hesperis  of evening, western  < Gr. ἑσπερος Hesperos, the evening star.

American Crow (brachyrhynchos)
SCI Name: Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos
brachyrhinchus / brachyrhyncha / brachyrhynchos / brachyrhynchum
Gr. βραχυς brakhus  short; ῥυγχος rhunkhos  bill.

American Crow (paulus)
SCI Name: Corvus brachyrhynchos paulus
paulus
L. paulus  little, small.

American Crow (pascuus)
SCI Name: Corvus brachyrhynchos pascuus
pascuum / pascuus
Spanish Pascua Florida Easter < Late L. pascha, paschae Easter.
● Florida, USA (subsp. Corvus brachyrhynchos).
● Florida, Bahia, Brazil (syn. Phaeoprogne tapera).