Javan Green-Magpie

SCI Name:  Cissa thalassina
Protonym:  Kitta thalassina Pl.Col. livr.68 pl.401
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Corvidae / Cissa
Taxonomy Code:  shtmag1
Type Locality:  Java and Sumatra.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1826
IUCN Status:  Critically Endangered

DEFINITIONS

CISSA
(Corvidae; Ϯ Common Green Magpie C. chinensis) Gr. κισσα kissa  magpie. The Greeks applied this name both to the jay and to the magpie, equally noisy and familiar. In Gr. myth. Cissa was one of the Pierides, who, having failed to best the Muses in a singing contest, was transformed into a chattering magpie; "XVIII. Fam. Melliphagidae Vigors. ²  ...  ² Unter der Benennung Cissa könnten ferner zur Gattung erhoben werden: Cor. sinensis Gm. und verwandte Arten." (Boie 1826); "Cissa Boie, 1826, Isis von Oken, col. 975. Type, by monotypy, Coracias sinensis Gmelin, 1788 = Coracias chinensis Boddaert, 1783.  ...  The name Kitta Temminck, 1826, in Temminck and Laugier, Pl. Col., 395, livr. 67 (= Ptilonorhynchus Kuhl, 1820, Beitr. Zool. Vergl. Anat., p. 150) has been used in error by some authors for this genus." (Vaurie in Peters, 1962, XV, p. 242). 
Synon. Chlorisoma, Corapica.

cissa
L. cissa  magpie or jay  < Gr. κισσα kissa  magpie (i.e. pied black and white) (syn. Dendrocopos major).

thalassina / thalassinus
L. thalassinus  sea-coloured, sea-green < Gr. θαλασσινος thalassinos  sea-purple, purple dye  < θαλασσα thalassa, θαλασσης thalassēs  sea.