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Cuban Palm Crow

Corvus minutus

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Corvidae

The Hispaniolan palm crow (Corvus palmarum) is a relatively small corvid endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, which is shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Taxonomy and systematics The Hispaniolan palm crow was originally described in 1835 by the German naturalist Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg with the binomial Corvus palmarum. At the time it included what is now the Cuban palm crow (Corvus minutus); the taxon was called the palm crow.

Distribution

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