Golden-tailed Parrotlet

Golden-tailed Parrotlet / Touit surdus

Golden-tailed Parrotlet

Here the details of the Golden-tailed Parrotlet named bird below:

SCI Name:  Touit surdus
Protonym:  Psittacus surdus NovaActaAcad.Caes.Leop.Carol. 10 p.59
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittacidae /
Taxonomy Code:  gotpar2
Type Locality:  Brazil.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1820
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

TOUIT
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet T. huetii) Tupí name Tuí eté  really little parrot, for the parrotlets (“Tuiete” of Marcgrave 1648); "1508.  TOUIT, Less. 1831.  Pyrrhulopsis, Pr. B. 1854, nec Reichenb. 1849.  (Psittacus Hueti, Temm.)" (G. Gray 1855).
Synon. Euchroura, Pyrrhulopsis, Urochroma.

surda / surdus
L. surdus  silent, still, insensible, deaf.