The Polytelini tribe belongs to the
parrot
Parrots (Psittaciformes), also known as psittacines (), are birds with a strong curved beak, upright stance, and clawed feet. They are classified in four families that contain roughly 410 species in 101 genus (biology), genera, found mostly in ...
family
Psittaculidae
Psittaculidae is a family of parrots, commonly known as Old World parrots, though this term is a misnomer, as not all its members occur in the Old World and Psittacinae also occurs in the Old World. It consists of six subfamilies: Psittricha ...
and consists of three genera.
[Joseph L., Alicia Toon, Erin E. Schirtzinger, Timothy F. Wright, Richard Schodde]
A revised nomenclature and classification for family-group taxa of parrots (Psittaciformes) (PDF)
, in Zootaxa, vol. 3205, 2012, pp. 26–40.
Species
References
Psittaculinae
Bird tribes
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