Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet

Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet / Touit huetii

Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet

Here the details of the Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet named bird below:

SCI Name:  Touit huetii
Protonym:  Psittacus huetii Pl.Col. livr.83 pl.491
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittacidae /
Taxonomy Code:  scspar1
Type Locality:  'Probably from Peru''; upper Amazonia, substituted by Berlepsch, Nov. Zool., 15, 1908, p. 287.
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Publish Year:  1830
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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.

hueti / huetii
● Joseph Huët (1827-1903) French zoologist (subsp. Alcippe morrisonia).
● Nicolas Huët (1770-1830) French painter, bird illustrator (Touit).