The Torresian Crow also occasionally called the Australian Crow or Papuan Crow in those respective countries, is an Australasian member of the crow

Crow

Crows form the genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. Ranging in size from the relatively small pigeon-size jackdaws to the Common Raven of the Holarctic region and Thick-billed Raven of the highlands of Ethiopia, the 40 or so members of this genus occur on all temperate continents and several...

 genus. An all black crow, it is found in the north and west of Australia and islands to the north.
The Torresian Crow was described by ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte

Charles Lucien Bonaparte

Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano was a French naturalist and ornithologist.-Biography:...

 in 1850, with the Australian subspecies ceciliae described by Mathews in 1912.