Information about Aratinga

Aratinga

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Psittaciformes
Family:Psittacidae
Subfamily:Psittacinae
Tribe:Arini
Genus:Aratinga
Spix, 1824
Species


Nearly 25, see text


Aratinga is a genus of American parakeets. They belong to the long-tailed group and are among the genera often called conures, particularly in bird keeping. Many species are popular pets, although being larger than the Pyrrhura species they need a sizable aviary to thrive.

SPECIES A fossil species from the Late Pleistocene of Ecuador was described as Aratinga roosevelti.
A. solstitialis

Binomial name
Aratinga solstitialis
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Sun Conure (Aratinga solstitialis)
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Psittaciformes
Wagler, 1830

Systematics

(but see below)

Family Cacatuidae (cockatoos)
  • Subfamily Microglossinae (Palm Cockatoo)
  • Subfamily Calyptorhynchinae (dark cockatoos)
  • Subfamily Cacatuinae (white cockatoos)

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Psittacidae
Illiger, 1811

Subfamily
Loriinae (lories and lorikeets)
Psittacinae (typical parrots and allies)

The true parrots are about 330 species of bird belonging to the Psittacidae
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Psittacinae

Tribes

Psittrichadini (Pesquet's Parrot)
Nestorini (Kea and relatives)
Strigopini (Kakapo)
Micropsittini (Pygmy parrots)
Cyclopsitticini (Fig parrots)
Platycercini (Broad-tailed parrots)
Psittaculini (Asian psittacines)
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Arini

Genera

c.32, see list

The Neotropical parrots (tribe Arini, sometimes subfamily Arinae) belong to the family of the true parrots Psittacidae. Some species have become extinct in recent centuries.
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Johann Baptist von Spix (February 9, 1781 - March 14, 1826) was a German naturalist.

Spix was born in Höchstadt. In 1817 he travelled to Brazil with Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, returning in 1820 with specimens of 6,500 plants, 2,700 insects, 85 mammals, 350 birds,
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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parakeet is a term for any one of a large number of unrelated small parrot species. It is mainly used instead of Conure for small long-tailed members of the Arini in the Americas, and in Australia colloquially for many species.
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Conures are a diverse, loosely-defined group of small to medium-sized parrots. They belong to several genera within a long-tailed group of the New World Parrot subfamily Arinae. The term "conure" is used primarily in bird keeping, though it has appeared in some scientific journals.
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Pyrrhura
Bonaparte, 1856

Species

See text.

Pyrrhura is a genus of parrots in the Arini tribe. They occur in tropical and subtropical South America and southern Central America (Panama and Costa Rica).
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A. acuticaudata

Binomial name
Aratinga acuticaudata
(Vieillot, 1818)

The Blue-crowned Parakeet, Blue-crowned Conure, or sharp-tailed conure (Aratinga acuticaudata
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A. aurea

Binomial name
Aratinga aurea
(Gmelin, 1788)

The Peach-fronted Parakeet (Aratinga aurea) is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family.
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A. auricapillus

Binomial name
Aratinga auricapillus
(Kuhl, 1820)

Synonyms

Aratinga auricapilla (Kuhl, 1820)

The Golden-capped Parakeet (Aratinga auricapillus
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A. brevipes

Binomial name
Aratinga brevipes
(Lawrence, 1871)

Synonyms
Aratinga holochlora ssp.
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A. cactorum

Binomial name
Aratinga cactorum
(Kuhl, 1820)

The Cactus Parakeet or Caatinga Parakeet (Aratinga cactorum) is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family.
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A. canicularis

Binomial name
Aratinga canicularis
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Orange-fronted Parakeet or Orange-fronted Conure (Aratinga canicularis), also known as the
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A. chloroptera

Binomial name
Aratinga chloroptera
(Souancé, 1856)

The Hispaniolan Parakeet, Conure Maîtresse, Aratinga De La Española, or Perico (
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A. erythrogenys

Binomial name
Aratinga erythrogenys
(Lesson, 1844)

The Red-masked parakeet, Aratinga erythrogenys, is a medium-sized parrot from Ecuador and Peru.
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A. euops

Binomial name
Aratinga euops
(Wagler, 1832)

The Cuban Parakeet, Conure De Cuba, or Aratinga Cubana (Aratinga euops
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A. finschi

Binomial name
Aratinga finschi
(Salvin, 1871)

The Crimson-fronted Parakeet (Aratinga finschi) is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family.
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A. holochlora

Binomial name
Aratinga holochlora
(Sclater, 1859)

The Green Parakeet (Aratinga holochlora), also known as Green Conure
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A. holochlora strenua

Trinomial name
Aratinga holochlora strenua
(Ridgway, 1915)

Synonyms

Aratinga strenua

The Pacific Parakeet or Nicaraguan Green Conure (Aratinga holochlora strenua
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A. jandaya

Binomial name
Aratinga jandaya
(Gmelin, 1788)

The Jenday Conure or Jandaya Parakeet (Aratinga jandaya) is a bird of the parrot family native to northeastern Brazil.
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A. labati

Binomial name
Aratinga labati
(Rothschild, 1905)

The Guadeloupe Parakeet (Aratinga labati) was a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. It was endemic to Guadeloupe.
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extinction is the cessation of existence of a species or group of taxa, reducing biodiversity. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of that species (although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point).
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