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  2. Hoplarchus - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Psittacus - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Parrot cichlid - Wikipedia

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    Parrot cichlid may refer to: Hoplarchus psittacus, a South American cichlid; Hypsophrys nicaraguensis, a Central American cichlid; Blood parrot cichlid, ...

  5. Psittacidae - Wikipedia

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    The family Psittacidae or holotropical parrots is one of three families of true parrots. It comprises the 12 species of subfamily Psittacinae (the Afrotropical parrots) and 167 of subfamily Arinae (the New World or Neotropical parrots ) including several species that have gone extinct in recent centuries.

  6. List of parrots - Wikipedia

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    Parrots, also known as psittacines (/ ˈ s ɪ t ə s aɪ n z /), [1] [2] are the 402 species of birds that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions, of which 387 are extant. The order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittacoidea ("true" parrots), the Cacatuoidea (cockatoos), and the ...

  7. Timneh parrot - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Alexandrine parakeet - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Blue-and-yellow macaw - Wikipedia

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    He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus ararauna. [2] This macaw is now one of the eight extant species within the Ara genus, first proposed in 1799 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède. [3] [4] The genus name is from ará meaning "macaw" in the Tupi language of Brazil.