Eupsittula
| Eupsittula | |
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| Peach-fronted parakeet (Eupsittula aurea) on a termite mound in Brazil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Superfamily: | Psittacoidea |
| Family: | Psittacidae |
| Subfamily: | Arinae |
| Tribe: | Arini |
| Genus: | Eupsittula Bonaparte, 1853 |
| Species | |
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Eupsittula nana | |
Eupsittula is a genus of South and Middle American parakeets in the tribe Arini. Until 2013, all the species were believed to belong to the genus Aratinga.[1] Some of the Eupsittula species are kept in aviculture or as companion parrots, where they are commonly known as conures.
Species
- Eupsittula nana (Vigors, 1830) - olive-throated parakeet
- Eupsittula canicularis (Linnaeus, 1758) - orange-fronted parakeet
- Eupsittula aurea (Gmelin, 1788) - peach-fronted parakeet
- Eupsittula pertinax (Linnaeus, 1758) - brown-throated parakeet
- Eupsittula cactorum (Kuhl, 1820) - Caatinga parakeet
References
- ↑ Remsen, Jr., J.V.; Schirtzinger, E.E.; Ferraroni, Anna; Silveira, Luís Fábio; & Wright, Timothy F. (24 April 2013). DNA-sequence data require revision of the parrot genus Aratinga (Aves: Psittacidae). Zootaxa 3641(3): 296–300. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.3.9
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