Siamese pied myna
| Siamese pied myna | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Sturnidae |
| Genus: | Gracupica |
| Species: | G. floweri
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| Binomial name | |
| Gracupica floweri (Sharpe, 1897)
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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 southern Myanmar to Thailand and Laos.[1] It previously was considered a subspecies of the pied myna, which has now been split into three species.[2] 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.[3]
References
- ^ AviList Core Team (2025). "AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025". doi:10.2173/avilist.v2025. Retrieved 14 January 2026.
- ^ "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. Bibcode:2021EvApp..14..698B. doi:10.1111/eva.13149. ISSN 1752-4571. PMC 7980273. PMID 33767745.