Antipodes Parakeet

Antipodes Parakeet / Cyanoramphus unicolor

Antipodes Parakeet

Here the details of the Antipodes Parakeet named bird below:

SCI Name:  Cyanoramphus unicolor
Protonym:  Platycercus unicolor Ill.Psittac.[Lear] pt4 pl.25
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae /
Taxonomy Code:  antpar1
Type Locality:  No locality = Antipodes Island.
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Publish Year:  1831
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CYANORAMPHUS
(Psittacidae; Black-fronted Parakeet C. zealandicus) Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; ῥαμφος  rhamphos  bill; "Conurus Phaëton   ...  rostro corneo-cœrulescente" (des Murs 1845); "Subfam. V. PLATICERCINÆ.   ...   40. CYANORAMPHUS, Bp. — 184. Pacificus, Forst. (Phaeton, O. des Murs.) — 185. Unicolor, Vig. — 186. Erythrotis, Wagl. — 187. Novæ-Zelandiæ, Sparrm. — 188. Ulietanus, Gm. — 189. Auriceps, Kuhl. " (Bonaparte 1854); "Cyanoramphus Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2), 6, 1854, p. 153. Type, by subsequent designation, Psittacus pacificus "Forster" = Conurus phaeton Des Murs 1845 = Psittacus erythronotus Kuhl 1820. (G. R. Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Bds., 1855, p. 86)." (Peters, 1937, III, 269); "CYANORAMPHUS Bonaparte, 1854  M— Psittacus pacificus "Forster"; type by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds, p. 86).= Psittacus zealandicus Latham, 1790" (Dickinson and Remsen (eds.), H. & M. Complete Checklist, 4th ed., 2013, 1 (Non-passerines), p. 377).
Var. Cyanorhamphus, Cyanorhynchus (Gr. ῥυγχος  rhunkhos  bill).
Synon. Bulleria, Notopsittacus, Pallacidopsittacus, Phippspsittacus.

unicolor
L. unicolor, unicoloris  plain, uniform, of one colour  < uni-  single-  < unus  one; color, coloris  colour.
● ex “Tanagra unicolor” of Lichtenstein MS (Haplospiza).
● ex “Perroquet Lori unicolore” of Levaillant 1801-1805 (unident.).