Alipiopsitta, Caparroz & Pacheco, 2006

Smith, Brian Tilston, Thom, Gregory & Joseph, Leo, 2024, Revised Evolutionary And Taxonomic Synthesis For Parrots (Order: Psittaciformes) Guided By Phylogenomic Analysis, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2024 (468), pp. 1-87 : 36

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https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090.468.1.1

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scientific name

Alipiopsitta
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Alipiopsitta View in CoL

Alipiopsitta xanthops View in CoL was formerly placed in Amazona View in CoL due to similarities in size, shape, and general plumage. However, phylogenetic work since the early 1990s shows that Al. xanthops View in CoL was paraphyletic with respect to Amazona ( Birt et al., 1992) View in CoL , which to our knowledge, has been confirmed by all subsequent molecular studies, including the phylogenomic data presented here. Further, comparisons of karyotypes in Arini showed high similarity between Al. xanthops View in CoL , Pionus maximiliani View in CoL , and Graydidascalus brachyurus View in CoL , and indicated a sister relationship between Alipiopsitta View in CoL and Graydidascalus ( Caparroz and Duarte, 2004) View in CoL . That sister relationship was supported by DNA sequence data ( Russello and Amato, 2004) and our phylogenomic tree. Its continued placement in Amazona View in CoL in some sources (e.g., Forshaw and Knight, 2010), likely an artifact of when the book was published, is unfounded. As noted by Caparroz and Pacheco (2006), Miranda-Ribeiro (1920) erected a new genus Salvatoria View in CoL for xanthops View in CoL to differentiate it from “true” Amazona View in CoL , but this name was preoccupied by Salvatoria McIntosh, 1885 View in CoL , a genus of polychaete worms. Accordingly, Alipiopsitta View in CoL was erected ( Caparroz and Pacheco, 2006). Alipiopsitta xanthops View in CoL is also polymorphic in that its plumage has green and yellow morphs. Such plumage polymorphism, excluding sexual and age-related dimorphism, is generally rare in parrots, other examples being Charmosyna stellae , Pseudeos fuscata View in CoL , Amazona ochrocephala View in CoL , and A. guildingii . There is no described geographic variation in Al. xanthops View in CoL . As noted, Al. xanthops View in CoL and G. brachyurus View in CoL shared a common ancestor 7.8 Mya (4.1–10.4).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Psittaciformes

Family

Psittacidae

Loc

Alipiopsitta

Smith, Brian Tilston, Thom, Gregory & Joseph, Leo 2024
2024
Loc

Alipiopsitta

Caparroz & Pacheco 2006
2006
Loc

Alipiopsitta

Caparroz & Pacheco 2006
2006
Loc

Charmosyna stellae

A.B.Meyer 1886
1886
Loc

Salvatoria

McIntosh 1885
1885
Loc

Salvatoria

McIntosh 1885
1885
Loc

Arini

G.R.Gray 1840
1840
Loc

Amazona

Lesson 1830
1830
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