The red-flanked lorikeet (''Hypocharmosyna placentis'') is a species 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 World' ...
.
It is found in
Mollucas,
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 Torr ...
and the
Bismarck Archipelago.
Its natural
habitat
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s are subtropical or tropical moist lowland
forest
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s and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. Only the adult males have the red plumage on the head and sides.
Taxonomy
This
species
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was formerly placed in the
genus
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''
Charmosyna
''Charmosyna'' is a genus of parrots in the family Psittaculidae.
Taxonomy
''Charmosyna'' contains the following three species:
* Josephine's lorikeet (''Charmosyna josefinae'')
* Papuan lorikeet (''Charmosyna papou'')
* Stella's lorikeet (''C ...
''. It was moved to the resurrected genus ''
Hypocharmosyna
''Hypocharmosyna'' is a genus of parrots in the family Psittaculidae that are endemic to New Guinea, the Maluku Islands and the Bismarck Archipelago.
Taxonomy
The genus ''Hypocharmosyna'' was introduced in 1891 by the Italian zoologist Tommaso S ...
'' based on a
molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020.
Five
subspecies are recognised:
[
* ''H. p. intensior'' (Kinnear, 1928) – ]North Maluku
North Maluku ( id, Maluku Utara) is a province of Indonesia. It covers the northern part of the Maluku Islands, bordering the Pacific Ocean to the north, the Halmahera Sea to the east, the Molucca Sea to the west, and the Seram Sea to the sout ...
, Gebe
Gebe is an island in Maluku Islands, Indonesia. Administratively it is part of Central Halmahera, North Maluku.
The island is part of a small island group which also include Fau island, Yoi, Uta, and Sain.
Gebe is part of the Halmahera rain f ...
Island
* ''H. p. ornata'' (Mayr, 1940) – north-western 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 Torr ...
, west Papuan Islands
* ''H. p. pallidior'' (Rothschild & Hartert, E, 1905) – Woodlark Island
Woodlark Island, known to its inhabitants simply as Woodlark or Muyua, is the main island of the Woodlark Islands archipelago, located in Milne Bay Province and the Solomon Sea, Papua New Guinea.
Although no formal census has been conducted sinc ...
, Bismarck Archipelago, Bougainville Island, western Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capit ...
* ''H. p. placentis'' (Temminck, 1835) – South Maluku, Aru Islands
The Aru Islands Regency ( id, Kabupaten Kepulauan Aru) is a group of about 95 low-lying islands in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia. It also forms a regency of Maluku Province, with a land area of . At the 2011 Census the Regency had a ...
, southern New Guinea
* ''H. p. subplacens'' (Sclater, PL, 1876) – eastern New Guinea
References
red-flanked lorikeet
Birds of the Maluku Islands
Birds of New Guinea
Birds of the Bismarck Archipelago
red-flanked lorikeet
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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