Alipiopsitta xanthops (Yellow-faced Parrot)
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Salvatoria de Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920[3] |
The monotypic Yellow-faced Parrot (Alipiopsitta xanthops) is the only species of the genus Alipiopsitta and is found in central Brazil, from Maranhão south to northern Paraguay and eastern Bolivia.[2][4] This semi-nomadic parrot is found at the cerrado in low numbers and is declining or has already disappeared in large areas of its former range.[1]
Taxonomy
Previously, it was placed within the genus Amazona and was sometimes called the Yellow-faced Amazon. Recent research showed that this species is much closer related to the Short-tailed Parrot (Graydidascalus brachyurus) and to the members of the genus Pionus.[5][6][7][8] In 2006, the genus name Salvatoria was changed to Alipiopsitta as it was a junior homonym of a genus Salvatoria McIntosh, 1885, a genus of exogonin syllid polychaetes.[2]
Description
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 BirdLife International (2004). Amazona xanthops. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a range map and a brief justification of why this species is near threatened
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Caparroz, R. and J. F. Pacheco (2006) A homonymy in Psittacidae: a new name for Salvatoria Miranda-Ribeiro. Rev. Bras. Orn. 14 (2): 174-175
- ↑ Miranda-Ribeiro, A. (1920) Revisão dos psitacídeos brasileiros. Rev. Mus. Paulista 12:1-82.
- ↑ Forshaw, Joseph M.; Cooper, William T. [1973, 1978] (1981). Parrots of the World, corrected second edition. David & Charles, Newton Abbot, London. ISBN 0-7153-7698-5.
- ↑ Birt, T. P., V. L. Friesen, J. M. Green, W. A. Montevecchi and W. S. Davidson (1992) Cytochrome-B sequence variation among parrots. Hereditas 117:67-72.
- ↑ Caparroz, R. and J. M. B. Duarte (2004) Chromosomal similarity between the Scaly-headed Parrot (Pionus maximiliani), the Short-tailed Parrot (Graydidascalus brachyurus) and the Yellow-faced Amazon (Salvatoria xanthops) (Psittaciformes: Aves): a cytotaxonomic analysis. Gen. Mol. Biol. 27:522-528.
- ↑ Duarte JMB and Caparroz R (1995) Cytotaxonomic analysis of Brazilian species of the genus Amazona (Psittacidae, Aves) and confirmation of the genus Salvatoria (Ribeiro, 1920). Braz J Genet 18:623-628.
- ↑ Russello, M.A. & Amato, G (2004) A molecular phylogeny of Amazona: implications for Neotropical parrot biogeography, taxonomy, and conservation. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 30: 421-437.