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Thick-billed Parrots
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Thick-billed Parrot
Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha

Thick-billed Parrot
Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Psittaciformes
Family:Psittacidae
Subfamily:Psittacinae
Tribe:Arini
Genus:Rhynchopsitta
Bonaparte, 1854
Species


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The Thick-billed Parrots are parrots of the genus Rhynchopsitta. The genus includes just two species: Rhynchopsitta phillipsi, a larger prehistoric relative, was described from Late Pleistocene fossils found in Nuevo León, Mexico. It was not an ancestor to the living species, as bones of them were also found at San Josecito Cave when R. phillipsi's remains were recovered. The prehistoric species had a rather distinct bill shape and may have occurred sympatrically with the Maroon-fronted Parrot in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental (Arroyo-Cabrales & Johnson 2003). Possibly, its bill was adapted to feeding on some species of pine which disappeared due to climate change at the end of the last ice age, driving the species to extinction.

References

  • Arroyo-Cabrales, Joaquín & Johnson, Eileen (2003): Catálogo de los ejemplares tipo procedentes de la Cueva de San Josecito, Nuevo León, México. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 20(1): 79-93. [Spanish with English abstract] PDF fulltext
R. pachyrhyncha

Binomial name
Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha
Swainson, 1827

The Thick-billed Parrot, Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha
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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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Charles Lucien (Carlo) Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (May 24, 1803 – July 29, 1857) was a French naturalist and ornithologist. He was the son of Lucien Bonaparte and nephew of Emperor Napoleon.
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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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R. pachyrhyncha

Binomial name
Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha
Swainson, 1827

The Thick-billed Parrot, Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha
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R. terrisi

Binomial name
Rhynchopsitta terrisi
Moore,RT, 1947

The Maroon-fronted Parrot Rhynchopsitta terrisi is a large, macaw-like parrot.
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The Late Pleistocene (also known as Upper Pleistocene or the Tarantian) is a stage of the Pleistocene Epoch. The beginning of the stage is defined by the base of Eemian interglacial phase before final glacial episode of Pleistocene 126,000 ± 5,000 years ago.
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For other uses of the term, see Fossil (disambiguation)


FOSSIL is a standard for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under the DOS operating system.
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Nuevo León

Flag
Coat of arms
Location within Mexico
Country  Mexico
Capital Monterrey
Municipalities 51
Largest City Monterrey

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Anthem
Himno Nacional Mexicano


Capital
(and largest city) Mexico City

Official languages Spanish (
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Sympatric Speciation is the genetic divergence of multiple populations (from a single parent species) inhabiting the same geographic region; such that those populations become different species.
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R. terrisi

Binomial name
Rhynchopsitta terrisi
Moore,RT, 1947

The Maroon-fronted Parrot Rhynchopsitta terrisi is a large, macaw-like parrot.
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Sierra Madre Oriental



Country | Mexico

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Pinus
L.

Subgenera
  • Subgenus Strobus
  • Subgenus Ducampopinus
  • Subgenus Pinus
See Pinus classification for complete taxonomy to species level.
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Climate change refers to the variation in the Earth's global climate or in regional climates over time. It describes changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere over time scales ranging from decades to millions of years.
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The Wisconsin (in North America), Devensian (in the British Isles), Midlandian (in Ireland), Würm (in the Alps), and Weichsel (in northern central Europe) glaciations
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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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