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3.1 Family Psittacidae. 3.1.1 Subfamily Psittacinae. 3.1.2 Subfamily Arinae ... The following classification is based on the most recent proposals as of 2012. [9] [10 ...
The family Psittacidae or holotropical parrots is one of three families of true parrots. It comprises the 12 species of subfamily Psittacinae (the Afrotropical parrots) and 167 of subfamily Arinae (the New World or Neotropical parrots ) including several species that have gone extinct in recent centuries.
Only the adult male possesses the red rump that gives the species its common name. It is commonly found in open, grassy habitats, both in natural open woodland and in man-made environments such as paddocks, fields, parks and gardens. It has adapted well to rural and suburban areas and is commonly observed foraging on the ground for a variety of ...
[2] [3] The name of the genus is a diminutive of the Latin word psittacus for a "parrot". [4] The genus includes 16 species, of which three are extinct. [5] †Newton's parakeet, Psittacula exsul - extinct (c.1875) Echo parakeet, Psittacula eques †Réunion parrot, Psittacula eques eques - extinct mid-18th century
The name combines the Ancient Greek αγάπη agape meaning "love" and όρνις ornis meaning "bird". [5] The type species is the black-collared lovebird ( Agapornis swindernianus ), [ 6 ] which was originally placed into the genus Psittacus within a section called Psittacula by naturalist Heinrich Kuhl . [ 4 ]
He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus accipitrinus. [2] Linnaeus based his description on the "hawk-headed parrot" that had been described and illustrated in 1751 by the English naturalist George Edwards in the fourth volume of his A Natural History of Uncommon Birds . [ 3 ]
Psittacinae (Afrotropical parrots, African parrots, or Old World parrots [1]) is a subfamily of parrots, native to sub-Saharan Africa, which include twelve species and two extant genera.