Pezoporini

Updated on Oct 01, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Psittacoidea Subfamily Platycercinae Rank Tribe		Class Aves Family Psittaculidae Phylum Chordata Order Parrot

Similar Parrot, Platycercinae, Psittaculinae, Broad‑tailed parrot, Agapornithinae

The tribe Pezoporini is the sister clade of the tribe Platycercini that contains the broad-tailed parrots.

Taxonomy

The inclusion of the following taxon is based on the paper by Joseph et al. (2012).

Genus Neophema

Blue-winged parrot, Neophema chrysostoma

Elegant parrot, Neophema elegans

Rock parrot, Neophema petrophilla

Orange-bellied parrot, Neophema chrysogaster

Turquoise parrot, Neophema pulchella

Genus Neopsephotus - sometimes included in Neophema

Bourke's parrot, Neopsephotus bourkii

Genus Pezoporus

Eastern ground parrot, Pezoporus wallicus

Western ground parrot, Pezoporus flaviventris

Night parrot, Pezoporus occidentalis – formerly Geopsittacus

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