Polytelini

Tribe of birds

Polytelini
Alisterus scapularis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittaculidae
Subfamily: Psittaculinae
Tribe: Polytelini
Mathews, 1916
Genera
  • Alisterus
  • Aprosmictus
  • Polytelis

The Polytelini tribe belongs to the parrot family Psittaculidae and consists of three genera.[1]

Species

Image Genus Living species
Alisterus Mathews, 1911
  • Australian king parrot, Alisterus scapularis
  • Moluccan king parrot, Alisterus amboinensis
  • Papuan king parrot, Alisterus chloropterus
Aprosmictus Gould, 1842
  • Jonquil parrot, Aprosmictus jonquillaceus
  • Red-winged parrot, Aprosmictus erythropterus
Polytelis Wagler, 1832

References

  1. ^ Joseph L., Alicia Toon, Erin E. Schirtzinger, Timothy F. Wright, Richard Schodde, A revised nomenclature and classification for family-group taxa of parrots (Psittaciformes) (PDF) Archived 2013-12-11 at the Wayback Machine, in Zootaxa, vol. 3205, 2012, pp. 26–40.
Taxon identifiers
Polytelini


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