Night Parrot
Night Parrot
Here the details of the Night Parrot named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Geopsittacus occidentalis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt1 p.100
Taxonomy: Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Pezoporus
Taxonomy Code: nigpar2
Type Locality: West Australia.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1861
IUCN Status: Endangered
DEFINITIONS
PEZOPORUS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Ground Parrot P. wallicus) Gr. πεζοπορος pezoporos walking, going on foot < πεζοπορεω pezoporeō to walk < πεζος pezos walking; πορος poros means of achieving; "GENUS 2. PEZOPORUS (πεζοπορος pedester) (Erdsittich Germ.). Rostrum mediocre, crassum; Maxilla basi ceromate parvo, apice adunca; Mandibula brevior, ascendens, infra convexa. Nares in ceromate prope rostri basin sitae. Lingua . . . . Pedes scansorii; Tarsus digitum anticum certe aequans. Digiti externi internis longiores. Tarsotheca reticulata; Acrodactyla scutulata. Ungues falculae rectiusculae. Species: Psittacus formosus Lath. (Perruche ingambe LeVaillant)." (Illiger 1811); "Pezoporus Illiger, Prodromus, 1811, p. 201. Type, by monotypy, Psittacus formosus Latham 1790, not of Scopoli 1769 = Psittacus wallicus Kerr." (Peters 1937, III, 272).
Var. Pezophorus, Pezeporus.
Synon. Geopsittacus.
occidentale / occidentalis
L. occidentalis western < occidens, occidentis west < occidere to set. This toponym was frequently given to taxa discovered in locations west of previously known populations.
● Cocal, Western Andes, Colombia (Dysithamnus).
● Jamaica; ex “Onocrotalus” or “Pelecanus fuscus” of Sloane 1725, “Pelican of America” of Edwards 1747, and “Pelecanus” of Browne 1756 (Pelecanus).
● TL. Day Dawn, Western Australia; "Westralian Wedgebill" (Mathews 1912) (Psophodes).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)