Psittacus, Linnaeus, 1758

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 : 22

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

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scientific name

Psittacus
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Psittacus View in CoL

Psittacus View in CoL are predominantly gray-plumaged parrots with red tails and prominent bare white facial skin. Along with Australian Nymphicus View in CoL and Melopsittacus View in CoL , they are among the world’s most familiar parrots, and are among the parrots most heavily harvested for the captive bird trade ( Mulliken, 1995). Their ethology has been intensely studied (e.g., Giret et al., 2009, Pepperberg et al., 2013). Psittacus View in CoL was long treated as monotypic, but two species are now conventionally recognized, P. erithacus View in CoL and P.timneh View in CoL . In the phylogenomic tree, the sister relationship between the two was stable and dated to the early Pleistocene (1.9 Mya; fig. 3). Relationships within and among populations of the two species have also been addressed through mitochondrial DNA sequences by Melo and O’Ryan (2007).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Psittaciformes

Family

Psittacidae

Loc

Psittacus

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

P.timneh

Fraser 1844
1844
Loc

Melopsittacus

Gould 1840
1840
Loc

Nymphicus

Wagler 1832
1832
Loc

Psittacus

Linnaeus 1758
1758
Loc

Psittacus

Linnaeus 1758
1758
Loc

P. erithacus

Linnaeus 1758
1758
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