Cacatua
Cacatua galerita
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Cacatuidae
Subfamily: Cacatuinae
Genus: Cacatua
Vieillot, 1817
Type species
Cacatua cristata[1] = Psittacus albus
Vieillot, 1817
Species

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Cacatoa sp - MHNT

Cacatua is a genus of cockatoos found from the Philippines and Wallacea east to the Solomon Islands and south to Australia. They have a primarily white plumage (in some species tinged pinkish or yellow), an expressive crest, and a black (subgenus Cacatua) or pale (subgenus Licmetis) bill. Today, several species from this genus are considered threatened due to a combination of habitat loss and capture for the wild bird trade, with the blue-eyed cockatoo, Moluccan cockatoo, and umbrella cockatoo considered vulnerable, and the red-vented cockatoo and yellow-crested cockatoo considered critically endangered.

Taxonomy

Although the name Cacatua was used in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson he did not include it in his table of genera and Brisson is not recognised as the authority by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).[2][3] The genus Kakatoe was introduced by Georges Cuvier in 1801 but this name has been suppressed by the ICZN and instead Louis Pierre Vieillot is recognised as introducing the genus Cacatua in 1817.[3][4][5] The type species was designated as the white cockatoo by Tommaso Salvadori in 1891.[6][7] The name Cacatua is from the Malay language words Kakatuá and Kakak-tuá for the cockatoos.[8]

Species

The genus contains 13 species.[9]

Subgenus Image Common name Scientific name Distribution
Cacatua - true white cockatoos Yellow-crested (or lesser sulphur-crested) cockatoo, Cacatua sulphurea East Timor and Indonesia's islands of Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas
Citron-crested cockatoo Cacatua citrinocristata Sumba in the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia
Sulphur-crested cockatoo Cacatua galerita Australia, and New Guinea and some of the islands of Indonesia
Blue-eyed cockatoo Cacatua ophthalmica New Britain in Papua New Guinea
White (or umbrella) cockatoo Cacatua alba Halmahera, Bacan, Ternate, Tidore, Kasiruta and Mandioli (Bacan group) in North Maluku, Indonesia
Salmon-crested (or Moluccan) cockatoo Cacatua moluccensis Seram archipelago in eastern Indonesia
Licmetis - corellas Long-billed corella Cacatua tenuirostris Australia
Western corella Cacatua pastinator South-western Australia
Little corella Cacatua sanguinea Australia and southern New Guinea
Tanimbar corella (or Goffin's cockatoo) Cacatua goffiniana Yamdena, Larat and Selaru, all islands in the Tanimbar Islands archipelago in Indonesia
Solomons cockatoo (or Ducorps's cockatoo) Cacatua ducorpsii Solomon Islands archipelago
Red-vented (or Philippine) cockatoo Cacatua haematuropygia Philippines
Lophochroa - pink cockatoos Pink (or Major Mitchell's/Leadbeater's) cockatoo Cacatua leadbeateri Interior and western Australia

References

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  1. ↑ "Psittacidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  2. ↑ Allen, J.A. (1910). "Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 28: 317–335. hdl:2246/678.
  3. 1 2 Bock, Walter J.; Schodde, Richard (1998). "Case 1647: Cacatua Vieillot, 1817 and Cacatuinae Gray, 1840 (Aves, Psittaciformes): proposed conservation". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 21: 159–164. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.175.
  4. ↑ "Opinion 1949: Cacatua Vieillot, 1817 and Cacatuinae Gray, 1840 (Aves, Psittaciformes): conserved". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 57 (1): 66–67. 2000.
  5. ↑ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1817). Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc (in French). Vol. 17 (Nouvelle édition ed.). Paris: Deterville. p. 6.
  6. ↑ Salvadori, Tommaso (1891). Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots, in the collection of the British Museum. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. 20. London: British Museum. pp. 115, 124.
  7. ↑ Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V. Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 354. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8.
  8. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  9. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2023). "Parrots, cockatoos". IOC World Bird List Version 13.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  • Juniper, T., & M. Parr (1998). A Guide to the Parrots of the World. Pica Press, East Sussex. ISBN 1-873403-40-2
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