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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 ...
Red-breasted parakeet: P. alexandri (Linnaeus, 1758) i NT: Indochina (excluding central Thailand) and the Himalayas Nicobar parakeet: P. caniceps (Blyth, 1846) i NT: Nicobar Islands which is northwest of Sumatra Long-tailed parakeet: P. longicauda (Boddaert, 1783) i NT: Sumatra, coasts of Borneo, tip of the Malay Peninsula Mascarene grey parakeet
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; Broad-billed parrot, Lophopsittacus mauritianus
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
Finsch's pygmy parrot, Micropsitta finschii; Red-breasted pygmy parrot, Micropsitta bruijnii; Tribe Polytelini: Genus Alisterus. Australian king parrot, Alisterus scapularis; Moluccan king parrot, Alisterus amboinensis; Papuan king parrot, Alisterus chloropterus; Genus Aprosmictus. Jonquil parrot, Aprosmictus jonquillaceus
Red-breasted parakeet; Rose-ringed parakeet; S. Seychelles parakeet; Slaty-headed parakeet This page was last edited on 15 March 2013, at 12:37 (UTC). Text is ...
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.
Yellow-breasted racquet-tail, Prioniturus flavicans (E) Eclectus parrot, Eclectus roratus; Red-cheeked parrot, Geoffroyus geoffroyi; Blue-collared parrot, Geoffroyus simplex; Blue-rumped parrot, Psittinus cyanurus; Rose-ringed parakeet, Psittacula krameri (A) Red-breasted parakeet, Psittacula alexandri; Long-tailed parakeet, Psittacula longicauda