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Charmosynopsis
''Charmosynopsis'' is a genus of parrots in the family Psittaculidae that are endemic to New Guinea, the southern Maluku Islands. Taxonomy The genus ''Charmosynopsis'' was introduced in 1877 by the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori with the fairy lorikeet as the type species. The genus was formerly considered as a junior synonym of the genus ''Charmosyna'' but following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study in 2020, ''Charmosynopsis'' was resurrected for two species in a discrete clade that was a basal to the other members of ''Charmosyna''. The genus contains two species: * Blue-fronted lorikeet The blue-fronted lorikeet (''Charmosynopsis toxopei'') also known as the Buru lorikeet, is a parrot endemic to the Indonesian island of Buru. Taxonomy This species was formerly placed in the genus ''Charmosyna''. It was moved to the resurrecte ... (''Charmosynopsis toxopei'') * Fairy lorikeet (''Charmosynopsis pulchella'') References Bird genera Taxa des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairy Lorikeet
The fairy lorikeet (''Charmosynopsis pulchella'') is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. Other common names include the little red lorikeet and the little red lory. Found in New Guinea, its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Its colouration is mainly red with some yellow on the throat and green on the wings. Two subspecies are recognised, ''C. p. pulchella'' and ''C. p. rothschildi''. Taxonomy The fairy lorikeet was formally described in 1859 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray under the binomial name ''Charmosyna pulchella''. It was moved from the original genus ''Charmosyna'' to the resurrected genus ''Charmosynopsis'' following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study in 2020. Description The fairy lorikeet grows to a length of about and weighs between . The male of the nominate subspecies, ''C. p. pulchella'', has the head, nape, breast and underparts red, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue-fronted Lorikeet
The blue-fronted lorikeet (''Charmosynopsis toxopei'') also known as the Buru lorikeet, is a parrot endemic to the Indonesian island of Buru. Taxonomy This species was formerly placed in the genus ''Charmosyna''. It was moved to the resurrected genus '' Charmosynopsis'' based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020. History The first foreign scientist who described the blue-fronted lorikeet and the only one who managed to capture it (seven individuals in the 1920s, using lime) was the Java-born Dutch lepidopterist Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus, which is reflected in the Latin name of the bird. His observations were summarized by the Dutch ornithologist Hendrik Cornelis Siebers (1890–1949) in 1930. Distribution and habitat Toxopeus noted that the bird's habitat on Buru is likely restricted to the western part of the Rana plateau in the center of the island (settlements of Wa Temun, Wa Fehat and Nal Besi), as the local name of the bird, ''utu papua'', was not known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairy Lorikeet
The fairy lorikeet (''Charmosynopsis pulchella'') is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae. Other common names include the little red lorikeet and the little red lory. Found in New Guinea, its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. Its colouration is mainly red with some yellow on the throat and green on the wings. Two subspecies are recognised, ''C. p. pulchella'' and ''C. p. rothschildi''. Taxonomy The fairy lorikeet was formally described in 1859 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray under the binomial name ''Charmosyna pulchella''. It was moved from the original genus ''Charmosyna'' to the resurrected genus ''Charmosynopsis'' following the publication of a molecular phylogenetic study in 2020. Description The fairy lorikeet grows to a length of about and weighs between . The male of the nominate subspecies, ''C. p. pulchella'', has the head, nape, breast and underparts red, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charmosyna
''Charmosyna'' is a genus of parrots in the family Psittaculidae. The three currently recognized species inhabit moist forests on the island of New Guinea. Taxonomy ''Charmosyna'' contains the following three species: The genus formerly included twelve additional species: pygmy lorikeet (''Charminetta wilhelminae''), red-fronted lorikeet (''Hypocharmosyna rubronotata''), red-flanked lorikeet (''Hypocharmosyna placentis''), blue-fronted lorikeet (''Charmosynopsis toxopei''), fairy lorikeet (''Charmosynopsis pulchella''), striated lorikeet (''Synorhacma multistriata''), duchess lorikeet (''Charmosynoides margarethae''), Meek's lorikeet (''Vini meeki''), red-chinned lorikeet (''Vini rubrigularis''), palm lorikeet (''Vini palmarum''), red-throated lorikeet (''Vini amabilis''), and New Caledonian lorikeet (''Vini diadema''). These were moved to other genera based on the results of a molecular phylogenetic Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psittaculidae
Psittaculidae is a family of parrots, commonly known as Old World parrots, though this term is a misnomer, as not all its members occur in the Old World and Psittacinae also occurs in the Old World. It consists of six subfamilies: Psittrichasinae, Agapornithinae, Loriinae, Platycercinae, Psittacellinae and Psittaculinae. Taxonomy The following cladogram shows how the family Psittaculidae relates to the three other families in the order Psittaciformes. The tree is based on the work by Leo Joseph and collaborators published in 2012 but with the choice of families and the number of species in each family taken from the list maintained by Frank Gill, Pamela Rasmussen and David Donsker on behalf of the International Ornithological Committee (IOC), now the International Ornithologists' Union. Joseph and collaborators proposed that the genera '' Psittrichas'' and '' Coracopsis '' should be placed in their own family, Psittrichasidae. This proposal has not been adopted by taxon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or, in scientific literature, as an ''endemite''. Similarly, many species found in the Western ghats of India are examples of endemism. Endemism is an important concept in conservation biology for measuring biodiversity in a particular place and evaluating the risk of extinction for species. Endemism is also of interest in evolutionary biology, because it provides clues about how changes in the environment cause species to undergo range shifts (potentially expanding their range into a larger area or b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Guinea
New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Mainland Australia, Australia by the wide Torres Strait, though both landmasses lie on the same continental shelf, and were united during episodes of low sea level in the Pleistocene glaciations as the combined landmass of Sahul. Numerous smaller islands are located to the west and east. The island's name was given by Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez during his maritime expedition of 1545 due to the perceived resemblance of the indigenous peoples of the island to those in the Guinea (region), African region of Guinea. The eastern half of the island is the major land mass of the nation of Papua New Guinea. The western half, known as Western New Guinea, forms a part of Indonesia and is organized as the provinces of Pap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maluku Islands
The Maluku Islands ( ; , ) or the Moluccas ( ; ) are an archipelago in the eastern part of Indonesia. Tectonics, Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located in West Melanesia. Lying within Wallacea (mostly east of the biogeography, biogeographical Max Carl Wilhelm Weber, Weber Line), the Moluccas have been considered a geographical and cultural intersection of Asia and Oceania. The islands were known as the Spice Islands because of the nutmeg, Nutmeg#Mace, mace, and cloves that were exclusively found there, the presence of which sparked European colonial interests in the 16th century. The Maluku Islands formed a single Provinces of Indonesia, province from Indonesian independence until 1999, when they were split into two provinces. A new province, North Maluku, incorporates the area between Morotai and Sula Islands Regency, Sula, with the arc of islands from Buru and Seram Island, Seram to Wetar rem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommaso Salvadori
Count Adelardo Tommaso Salvadori Paleotti (30 September 1835 – 9 October 1923) was an Italian zoologist and ornithologist. Biography Salvadori was born in Porto San Giorgio, son of Count Luigi Salvadori and Ethelyn Welby, who was English. His brother Giorgio married their cousin Adele Emiliani (daughter of Giacomo Emiliani and Casson Adelaide Welby) and had five children (Charlie, Robbie, Minnie, Nellie and Guglielmo "Willie"). His nephew Guglielmo Salvadori Paleotti married Giacinta Galletti de Cadilhac (daughter of Arturo Galletti de Cadilhac and Margaret Collier) and had three children (Gladys, Massimo Salvadori, Massimo "Max" and Joyce Lussu, Gioconda Beatrice "Joyce"). He studied medicine in Pisa and Rome and graduated in medicine at the University of Pisa. He participated in Giuseppe Garibaldi, Garibaldi's military expedition in Sicily (the Expedition of the Thousand), serving as a medical officer. He was assistant in the Museum of Zoology in 1863, becoming Vice-Direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type Species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological Type (biology), type wiktionary:en:specimen, specimen (or specimens). Article 67.1 A similar concept is used for suprageneric groups and called a type genus. In botanical nomenclature, these terms have no formal standing under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, code of nomenclature, but are sometimes borrowed from zoological nomenclature. In botany, the type of a genus name is a specimen (or, rarely, an illustration) which is also the type of a species name. The species name with that type can also be referred to as the type of the genus name. Names of genus and family ranks, the various subdivisions of those ranks, and some higher-rank names based on genus names, have suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junior Synonym
In taxonomy, the scientific classification of living organisms, a synonym is an alternative scientific name for the accepted scientific name of a taxon. The botanical and zoological codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently. * In botanical nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that now goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnaeus was the first to give a scientific name (under the currently used system of scientific nomenclature) to the Norway spruce, which he called '' Pinus abies''. This name is no longer in use, so it is now a synonym of the current scientific name, '' Picea abies''. * In zoology, moving a species from one genus to another results in a different binomen, but the name is considered an alternative combination rather than a synonym. The concept of synonymy in zoology is reserved for two names at the same rank that refers to a taxon at that rank – for example, the name ''Papilio prorsa'' Linnaeus, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
