Plain parakeet

The plain parakeet (Brotogeris tirica) is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae endemic to Brazil. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and heavily degraded former forest. It is common in the urban areas of São Paulo and Curitiba in South Brazil. The plain parakeet is notable for being plain green all over. Its beak is a pinkish colour.

Plain parakeet
In Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittacidae
Genus: Brotogeris
Species:
B. tirica
Binomial name
Brotogeris tirica
(Gmelin, 1788)

Taxonomy

The plain parakeet was formally described in 1788 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus tirica.[2] The type locality was subsequently designated as Brazil.[3][4] The plain parakeet is now placed with seven other parakeets in genus Brotogeris that was introduced in 1825 by Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors.[5][6] The genus name is from the Ancient Greek brotogērus meaning "with human voice". The specific epithet tirica is from the Tupi language tiriba meaning "tinkling". The word was used for a parakeet.[7] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[6]

References
  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Brotogeris tirica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22685956A93093913. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22685956A93093913.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. Gmelin, Johann Friedrich (1788). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 1 (13th ed.). Lipsiae [Leipzig]: Georg. Emanuel. Beer. p. 351.
  3. Brabourne, W.; Chubb, C. (1912). The Birds of South America. London: R.H. Porter. p. 87.
  4. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1937). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 206.
  5. Vigors, Nicholas Aylward (1825). "On the arrangement of the genera of birds". Zoological Journal. 2: 391-405 [400].
  6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (January 2022). "Parrots, cockatoos". IOC World Bird List Version 12.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  7. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. pp. 78, 386. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.


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