Running parakeets
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Goat Parakeet ( Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae ) |
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The parakeets ( Cyanoramphus ) are a genus of birds from the parrot family (Psittacidae). They are small parakeets that live mainly on the ground and are well camouflaged by their green plumage.
Their distribution area ranged from islands in the South Pacific ( Tahiti , Raiatea ) to the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island , but the center of their distribution area are the islands of New Zealand . The spread across the islands has led to the division into many endemic species and subspecies. Two species and two subspecies are already extinct and other species, especially those living on smaller islands, are severely threatened.
Systematics
For a long time, most of the taxa of the genus were assigned to the goat parakeet ( Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae ) as a subspecies. Molecular genetic studies, however, showed the following systematics († = extinct):
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Goat Parakeet ( Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae )
- Kermadec Parakeet ( Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae cyanurus )
- Chatham Parakeet ( Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae chathamensis )
- Lord Howe Parakeet ( Cyanoramphus subflavescens ) †
- Black Parakeet ( Cyanoramphus malherbi )
- Macquarie parakeet ( Cyanoramphus erythrotis ) †
- Antipod parakeet ( Cyanoramphus hochstetteri )
- Spring parakeet ( Cyanoramphus auriceps )
- Red Parakeet ( Cyanoramphus unicolor )
- Norfolk Parakeet ( Cyanoramphus cooki )
- Chatham Parakeet or Chatham Parakeet ( Cyanoramphus forbesi )
- New Caledonia Parakeet ( Cyanoramphus saisetti )
- Tahitian parakeet ( Cyanoramphus zealandicus ) †
- Brown -headed parakeet ( Cyanoramphus ulietanus ) †
literature
- Dieter Hoppe : Parakeets and parrots. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, ISBN 3-8001-4452-2
Web links
- Tree of Life Web Project. Cyanoramphus . Version August 28, 2008. in The Tree of Life Web Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boon, WM; Kearvell, J .; Daugherty, CH; Chambers, GK (2001): Molecular systematics and conservation of kakariki ( Cyanoramphus spp.) . Science for Conservation 176 PDF Online
- ↑ Chambers, GK; Boon, WM (2005): Molecular systematics of Macquarie Island and Reischek's parakeets . Notornis Vol 52: 249-250 PDF Online