Alisterus, Mathews, 1911
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https://doi.org/ 10.1206/0003-0090.468.1.1 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8D5487F9-9C50-FFC9-FF9E-FB5A4E662AC2 |
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Felipe |
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Alisterus |
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The king parrots ( Alisterus ) comprise three species that are largely red ventrally and green dorsally and that have long, broad tails. A streak of a lighter green in the upper wing coverts in two species is strongly UV-fluorescent ( Nemesio, 2001). They occur in Australia, Indonesia, and New Guinea. Relationships among the species were consistent and highly supported across previous topologies ( Provost et al., 2018) and the one presented here. At approximately 3.2 Mya (1.8–4.2) A. scapularis ( Australia) diverged from the ancestor of A. amboinensis ( Moluccas, western New Guinea) and A. chloropterus (remainder of New Guinea), which in turn diversified at 1.8 Mya (1.1–2.5; fig. 10).
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