''Neopsittacus'' is a genus of
parrot
Parrots, also known as psittacines (), are birds of the roughly 398 species in 92 genera comprising the order Psittaciformes (), found mostly in tropical and subtropical regions. The order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittacoide ...
in the family
Psittaculidae
Psittaculidae is a family containing Old World parrots. It consists of five subfamilies: Agapornithinae, Loriinae, Platycercinae, Psittacellinae and Psittaculinae.
This family has been accepted into '' The Clements Checklist of Birds of the W ...
. The genus contains two species, both of which are native to
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torres ...
.
Taxonomy
The genus ''Neopsittacus'' contains two species and several subspecies:
''Neopsittacus''
Salvadori 1875
*''Neopsittacus musschenbroekii''
(Schlegel 1871) (
yellow-billed lorikeet)
** ''Neopsittacus musschenbroekii major''
Neumann 1924
** ''Neopsittacus musschenbroekii musschenbroekii''
(Schlegel 1871)
*''Neopsittacus pullicauda''
Hartert 1896 (
orange-billed lorikeet)
** ''Neopsittacus pullicauda alpinus''
Ogilvie-Grant 1914
** ''Neopsittacus pullicauda pullicauda''
Hartert 1896
** ''Neopsittacus pullicauda socialis''
Mayr 1931
References
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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