Plum-crowned parrot
The plum-crowned parrot (Pionus tumultuosus) is a South American species of parrot from the humid Andean forests from centra Peru, to Bolivia. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the white-capped parrot (Pionus seniloides). Before the split the common name of the combined taxa was "speckle-faced parrot". The two were originally described as separate species, are morphologically distinctive, and there is no evidence of intergradation, but this in itself is not remarkable, as their distributions are separated by a gap of approx. 150 km.[2][3]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittacidae |
| Genus: | Pionus |
| Species: | P. tumultuosus |
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| Pionus tumultuosus (Tschudi, 1844) | |
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Cloud forest near Cock-of-the-Rock Lodge - Peru
References
- BirdLife International (2016). "Pionus tumultuosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22727615A94954391. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22727615A94954391.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- "Proposal to split Pionus seniloides (Massena & Souancé,1854) from Pionus tumultuosus (Tschudi, 1844)". The Louisiana Museum of Natural History. 29 January 2004. Archived from the original on 23 February 2007. Retrieved 1 September 2007.
- "White-headed Pionus". Pionus Breeders Association. 29 January 2004. Archived from the original on 19 July 2002. Retrieved 1 September 2007.
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