Psittacara
Red-masked parakeet (Psittacara erythrogenys), feral birds in a tree in California, United States
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Tribe: Arini
Genus: Psittacara
Vigors, 1825
Type species
Psittacus gujanensis[1]
Species

See text.

Psittacara is a genus of parakeets in the tribe Arini. Species of the genus are found in Central and South America, the Caribbean and one species reaching the southern United States. Until 2013, all the species were placed in the genus Aratinga. Many of the Psittacara species are kept in aviculture or as companion parrots, where they are commonly known as conures.

Taxonomy

The members of this genus were formerly placed in the genus Aratinga. Molecular phylogenetic studies had found that Aratinga was non-monophyletic so in order to create monophylectic genera James Van Remsen Jr. and collaborators proposed in 2013 that Aratinga should be split and a group of species moved to the resurrected genus Psittacara.[2] The genus had been introduced in 1825 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors with the white-eyed parakeet as the type species.[3][4]

Species

The genus contains 13 species including one which is now extinct:[5]

Hypothetical species

  • † Guadeloupe parakeet (Psittacara labati)
    • Jean-Baptiste Labat described a population of small parrots living on Guadeloupe, which have been postulated to be a separate species based on little evidence. They were originally named Conurus labati, but no specimens or remains of these parrots exist. Their taxonomy may never be fully elucidated, and so their postulated status as a separate species is hypothetical.[6]

References

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  1. ↑ "Psittacidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  2. ↑ Remsen, Jr., J.V.; Schirtzinger, E.E.; Ferraroni, A.; Silveira, L.; Wright, T. (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. PMID 26287088.
  3. ↑ Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1825). "Sketches in ornithology; or, Observations on the leading affinities of some of the more extensive groups of birds". Zoological Journal. 2: 37–70, 182–197, 368–405, 466-483 [388-389, 400].
  4. ↑ 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. 368. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
  5. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2021). "Parrots, cockatoos". IOC World Bird List Version 11.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
  6. ↑ Fuller, Errol (1987). Extinct Birds. Penguin Books (England). p. 131. ISBN 0-670-81787-2.
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