Higher classification of New World parrots (Psittaciformes; Arinae), with diagnoses of tribes
Author
Schodde, Richard
Author
Remsen, J. V.
Author
Schirtzinger, Erin E.
Author
Joseph, Leo
Author
Wright, Timothy F.
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Zootaxa
2013
3691
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591
596
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3691.5.5
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Tribe
ARINI G.R. Gray, 1840
(1825)
Small-medium to large, usually acutely medium- to long-tailed variably coloured parrots with feathered or naked cere, and which are sexually monomorphic; temporal fossa well and deeply defined, and strongly muscled; auditory meatus open and square-shaped; orbital ring completely or almost completely ossified by extension of prefrontal (except
Anodorhynchus
); furcula present;
M. ambiens
usually present; uropygial gland well-developed; head-preening direct, by foot under wing.
NOTE
:
Leptosittaca
,
Guarouba
,
Diopsittaca
,
Cyanopsitta
,
Orthopsittaca
,
and
Primolius
not scored for anatomical or behavioral traits.
Genera:
Pionites
Heine, 1890
;
Deroptyus
Wagler, 1832
;
Pyrrhura
Bonaparte, 1856
;
Enicognathus
G.R. Gray, 1840
;
Cyanoliseus
Bonaparte, 1854
;
Anodorhynchus
Spix, 1824
;
Rhynchopsitta
Bonaparte, 1854
;
Eupsittula
Finsch, 1868
(see Remsen
et al.
2013 for resurrection of this genus);
Conuropsis
Salvadori
, 1891
;
Aratinga
Spix, 1824
;
Cyanopsitta
Bonaparte, 1854
;
Nandayus
Bonaparte, 1854
(for inclusion in
Aratinga
see Remsen
et al.
2013);
Orthopsittaca
Ridgway, 1912
;
Primolius
Bonaparte, 1857
;
Ara
Lacépède, 1799
;
Leptosittaca
Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1894
;
Ognorhynchus
Bonaparte, 1857
;
Guarouba
Lesson, 1830
;
Diopsittaca
Ridgway, 1912
;
Thectocercus
Ridgway, 1916
(see Remsen
et al.
2013 for resurrection of this genus);
Psittacara
Vigors, 1825
.
Tribe
ANDROGLOSSINI Sundevall, 1872
,
Methodi Naturalis Avium Disponendarum Tentamen
, p. 69. Samson & Wallin, Stockholm—type genus:
Androglossus
Sundevall, 1872
Small to medium, usually round-tailed, green parrots with usually naked cere, commonly vari-coloured heads, and which are, except for
Triclaria
and several species of
Amazona
, sexually monomorphic; temporal fossa usually well and deeply defined, and strongly muscled; auditory meatus open and square-shaped; orbital ring variably ossified by extension of prefrontal; furcula present;
M. ambiens
absent; uropygial gland usually atrophied; head preening direct, by foot under wing.
NOTE
:
Hapalopsittaca
,
Alipiopsitta
, and
Pionopsitta
not scored for anatomical or behavioral traits.
Genera:
Myiopsitta
Bonaparte, 1854
;
Brotogeris
Vigors, 1825
;
Pionopsitta
Bonaparte, 1854
,
Triclaria
Wagler, 1832
,
Hapalopsittaca
Ridgway, 1912
,
Pyrilia
Bonaparte, 1856
,
Pionus
Wagler, 1832
,
Graydidascalus
Bonaparte, 1854
,
Alipiopsitta
Caparroz & Pacheco, 2006
,
Amazona
Lesson, 1830
.