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The genus Trichoglossus was introduced in 1826 by the English naturalist James Francis Stephens. [2] The name combines the Ancient Greek thrix meaning "hair" and glōssa meaning "tongue". [3]
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 ...
Washington Island, Fanning Island, and Christmas Island of Kiribati, and Rimatara of French Polynesia Stephen's lorikeet: V. stepheni (North, 1908) g VU: Henderson Island in the Pitcairn Islands (UK) Blue lorikeet: V. peruviana (Müller, 1776) g VU: Eastern French Polynesia, and formerly central French Polynesia Ultramarine lorikeet: V ...
Parrots (Psittaciformes), also known as psittacines (/ ˈ s ɪ t ə s aɪ n z /), [1] [2] are birds with a strong curved beak, upright stance, and clawed feet. [ a ] They are classified in four families that contain roughly 410 species in 101 genera , found mostly in tropical and subtropical regions.
The genus Eupsittula was introduced in 1853 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte with the orange-fronted parakeet as the type species. [3] [4] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek eu meaning "good" with the Modern Latin psittula meaning "little parrot". [5] The genus contains five species. [6]
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The genus Psittacula was introduced in 1800 by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier. [1] 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]
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.