Psittacus is a genus of African grey parrots in the subfamily Psittacinae. It contains two species: the grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) and the Timneh...
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animals (large Austromegabalanus psittacus are apparently safe). Chan, Benny K.K. (2012). "Austromegabalanus psittacus (Molina, 1788)". WoRMS. World Register...
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Grey parrot (redirect from Psittacus erithacus)
He placed it with all other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus erithacus. Linnaeus erroneously specified the type...
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Swain designated S. psittacus as the type species of the genus Scarus. Research has found that across its wide distribution S. psittacus has a five genetically...
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Eupyra psittacus is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by William Schaus in 1892. It is found in Bolivia and Peru. Savela, Markku (October...
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Colomesus psittacus, the Banded puffer, parrot puffer or South American estuarine puffer, is a species of pufferfish found all along the Western Atlantic...
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Timneh parrot (redirect from Psittacus erithacus timneh)
classified as a subspecies of the grey parrot Psittacus erithacus timneh, it is now considered a full species Psittacus timneh. In aviculture, it is often referred...
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Chromacris psittacus is a species of grasshopper from the genus Chromacris. Nymphs are red and black in coloration, and often remain in groups, both traits...
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Cockatiel (redirect from Psittacus hollandicus)
Originally described by Scottish writer and naturalist Robert Kerr in 1793 as Psittacus hollandicus, the cockatiel (or cockateel) was moved to its own genus,...
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Carolina parakeet (redirect from Psittacus carolinensis)
Neotropical parrots in family Psittacidae of true parrots. The binomial Psittacus carolinensis was assigned by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus in the 10th...
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Alexandrine parakeet (redirect from Psittacus torquatus)
Alexandrine parakeet in 1766 as Psittacus eupatria. The genus name Psittacula is a diminutive of the Latin word psittacus meaning "parrot", and the specific...
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Naturae. He placed it with the parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus elegans. This Latin name had been used in 1605 by the...
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Broad-billed parrot (redirect from Psittacus mauritianus)
belonging to a large parrot species, to which he gave the binomial name Psittacus mauritianus. This holotype specimen is now lost. The common name "broad-billed...
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Poicephalus are usually green birds with different colored heads; the larger Psittacus are light grey with red tails. African parrots (at least the grey parrot)...
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Monk parakeet (redirect from Psittacus monachus)
but in 1783, Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Psittacus monachus in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. As Buffon did not...
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Jandaya parakeet (redirect from Psittacus jandaya)
the jandaya parakeet with a short description, coined the binomial name Psittacus jandaya and cited earlier publications. The jandaya parakeet is now placed...
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genus Psittacus, but it has since been moved to the widely accepted Aratinga, which contains a number of similar New World species, while Psittacus is now...
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N'kisi is a grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) thought to exhibit advanced English talking skills and other abilities. According to news reports and websites...
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Raiatea parakeet (redirect from Psittacus ulietanus)
ulietanus (J. F. Gmelin, 1788) Synonyms Psittacus ulietanus J. F. Gmelin, 1789 Platycercus tannaensis Finsch, 1868 Psittacus fuscatus von Pelzeln, 1873...
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placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus accipitrinus. Linnaeus based his description on the...
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Black-fronted parakeet (redirect from Psittacus zealandicus)
zealandicus Binomial name †Cyanoramphus zealandicus (Latham, 1790) Synonyms Psittacus zealandicus Latham, 1790 Cyanoramphus erythronotus Kuhl, 1820 Platycercus...
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first described by the German naturalist Martin Lichtenstein in 1816 as Psittacus scapularis. The species belongs to the genus Alisterus, whose three members...
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Guadeloupe amazon (redirect from Psittacus violaceus)
German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin coined the scientific name Psittacus violaceus for the bird in his 1789 edition of Systema Naturae, based on...
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Hoplarchus (redirect from Hoplarchus psittacus)
cichlid in the tribe Heroini. It contains the single species Hoplarchus psittacus, which is endemic to the blackwater rivers in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela...
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1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Psittacus macao. The scarlet macaw is now placed in the genus Ara (Lacépède, 1799)...
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placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus ararauna. This macaw is now one of the eight extant...
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Red-capped parrot (redirect from Psittacus spurius)
in captivity. The species was described in 1820 by Heinrich Kuhl, as Psittacus spurius, from an immature specimen collected at Albany, Western Australia...
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naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin to describe the species, which he did as Psittacus caledonicus in the 13th edition of Systema Naturae in 1788. In 1820, German...
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Rodrigues parrot (redirect from Psittacus rodericanus)
Based on this beak, he scientifically described and named the new species Psittacus rodricanus. While he found the bone similar to the beaks of the lories...
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