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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 ...
No consensus existed regarding the taxonomy of Psittaciformes until recently. The placement of the Strigopoidea species has been variable in the past. [ 13 ] They were once considered part of the Psittacoidea, but recent 21st-century studies place this group of New Zealand species as their own superfamily next to the Cacatuoidea and remaining ...
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]
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 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 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.
Psittacopasseres is a taxon of birds consisting of the Passeriformes (passerines, a large group of perching birds) and Psittaciformes (). [3] Per Ericson and colleagues, in analysing genomic DNA, revealed a lineage comprising passerines, psittacines and Falconiformes. [4]
The genus Chalcopsitta was introduced in 1850 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. [3] The name combines the Ancient Greek khalkos meaning "bronze" with the Modern Latin psitta meaning "parrot". [4] The type species was designated by George Robert Gray in 1855 as the black lory. [5]