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Hoplarchus is a genus of cichlid in the tribe Heroini.It contains the single species Hoplarchus psittacus, which is endemic to the blackwater rivers in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela, including the Rio Negro, Jamari, Preto da Eva, Urubu rivers and upper Orinoco drainages.
The genus Psittacus was introduced in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. [3] The genus name is Latin for "parrot". [4] Linnaeus included all 37 of the then-known parrots in the genus and of these George Robert Gray designated the grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) as the type species. [5] [6]
Parrot cichlid may refer to: Hoplarchus psittacus, a South American cichlid; Hypsophrys nicaraguensis, a Central American cichlid; Blood parrot cichlid, ...
Compared with the only other recognised Psittacus species, the grey parrot (P. erithacus), the Timneh is smaller and darker, with a dull, dark maroon (rather than crimson) tail and a horn-coloured patch on the upper mandible. [7] Like the grey parrot, the Timneh parrot is intelligent and a skilled mimic. [8]
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The Blood Parrot Cichlid (Amphilophus citrinellus × Vieja melanurus), or parrot cichlid, is a hybrid species of fish in the family Cichlidae. [1] The fish was first bred in Taiwan around 1986. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Blood parrots should not be confused with other parrot cichlids or salt water parrotfish (family Scaridae). [ 4 ]
The crimson rosella had been described and named by John Latham in 1781 as the "Beautiful Lory", from a specimen in the collection of Sir Joseph Banks, [6] and then as the "Pennantian Parrot" in 1787 [7] in honour of Thomas Pennant. [8] However, Latham did not give the species a binomial name until 1790, when he named it Psittacus pennantii. [9]
Carl Linnaeus redescribed the Alexandrine parakeet in 1766 as Psittacus eupatria. [9] The genus name Psittacula is a diminutive of the Latin word psittacus meaning "parrot", and the specific name eupatria (εὖπατριά) is derived from the ancient Greek eu-meaning "well" and patriá meaning "descent". [10] [11] [12]