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The data place most of the diversification of psittaciformes around 40 Mya, after the separation of Australia from West Antarctica and South America. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Divergence of the Psittacidae from the ancestral parrots resulted from a common radiation event from what was then West Antarctica into South America, then Africa, via late Cretaceous ...
The order Psittaciformes consists of 387 extant species belonging to 87 genera. The following classification is based on the most recent proposals as of 2012. [9] [10] [3] Superfamily Psittacoidea: true parrots [21] Family Psittacidae. Subfamily Psittacinae: two African genera, Psittacus and Poicephalus; Subfamily Arinae. Tribe Arini: eighteen ...
The true parrots are distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, covering many different habitats, from the humid tropical forests to deserts in Australia, India, Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Central and South America, and two species, one extinct (the Carolina parakeet), formerly in the United States.
Sulphur-breasted parakeet Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix II (CITES) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Psittaciformes Family: Psittacidae Genus: Aratinga Species: A. maculata Binomial name Aratinga maculata (Statius Müller, 1776) Synonyms Aratinga pintoi Silveira, de Lima & Höfling, 2005 Psittacus ...
White-eyed parakeet In Piraju, Brazil Psittacara leucophthalmu s - White-eyed Parakeet Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) CITES Appendix II (CITES) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Psittaciformes Family: Psittacidae Genus: Psittacara Species: P. leucophthalmus Binomial name Psittacara leucophthalmus (Müller, PLS, 1776 ...
Female, Bangladesh. The red-breasted parakeet was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus alexandri. [2]
A revised classification of the genus by Michael Braun and coauthors in 2019 split the genus into multiple monophyletic genera. [6] The proposed monophyletic genus, Himalayapsitta, includes the Plum-headed parakeet, Grey-headed parakeet, Slaty-headed parakeet, and the Blossom-headed parakeet.