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The red-breasted parakeet is now placed in the genus Psittacula that was introduced in 1800 by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier. [4] [5] The genus name is a diminutive of the Latin word psittacus for a "parrot". The specific epithet alexandri is from Alexander the Great whose soldiers introduced parakeets to Greece. [6] Eight subspecies are ...
Blue-winged parakeet, Psittacula columboides; Layard's parakeet, Psittacula calthropae; Lord Derby's parakeet, Psittacula derbiana; Red-breasted parakeet, Psittacula alexandri; Nicobar parakeet, Psittacula caniceps; Long-tailed parakeet, Psittacula longicauda; Genus Lophopsittacus Mauritius grey parrot, Lophopsittacus (disputed) bensoni
The type species was designated in 1923 by Gregory Mathews as the red-breasted parakeet. [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
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Download QR code; Print/export ... broad wings with 11 primary and about 20 secondary flight ... Blossom-headed parakeet: Psittacula roseata: Red-breasted parakeet:
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The rose-fronted parakeet is 20 to 23 cm (7.9 to 9.1 in) long. The sexes are the same in all subspecies. Adults of the nominate subspecies P. r. roseifrons have a bright red crown and face and dirty whitish ear coverts. Their upperparts are mostly green with a maroon-red red lower back and rump.
Maroon-tailed parakeet (in front), and black-capped parakeet (behind); illustration by Keulemans, 1891. Pyrrhura (Greek Red/Fire Tail) is a genus of parrots in the Arini tribe. . They occur in tropical and subtropical South America and southern Central America (Panama and Costa Ric