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Cyanoramphus
Red-crowned Parakeet, Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia   Phylum: Chordata   Class: Aves   Order: Psittaciformes   Family: Psittacidae   Genus: Cyanoramphus Bonaparte, 1854
Species
Cyanoramphus auriceps Cyanoramphus erythrotis Cyanoramphus malherbi Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae Cyanoramphus saisetti Cyanoramphus ulietanus (extinct) Cyanoramphus unicolor Cyanoramphus zealandicus (extinct) Cyanoramphus cooki

Cyanoramphus is a genus of parakeets native to New Zealand and islands of the southern Pacific Ocean.

The list curreently accepted of Cyanoramphus taxa, following Boon et al. (2001) is:

• Yellow-crowned Parakeet C. auriceps (Kuhl, 1820)
  Orange-fronted Parakeet C. malherbi Souancé, 1857Conservation status: Critical
• Red-crowned Parakeet C. novaezelandiae (Sparrman, 1787)
  • New Zealand Red-crowned Parakeet C. novaezelandiae novaezelandiae
    Chatham Island Red-crowned Parakeet C. novaezelandiae chathamensis
• Forbes' Parakeet C. forbesi (formerly considered a subspecies of C. auriceps).
  Antipodes Island Parakeet C. unicolor
  Black-fronted Parakeet C. zealandicus (extinct)
  Subantarctic Red-crowned Parakeet C. erythrotis
  • Macquarie Island Red-crowned Parakeet C. erythrotis erythrotis (extinct; formerly considered a subspecies of C. novaezelandiae).
    Reischek's Parakeet C. erythrotis hochstetteri (formerly considered a subspecies of C. novaezelandiae).
• New Caledonia Red-crowned Parakeet C. saisetti (formerly considered a subspecies of C. novaezelandiae).
  Norfolk Island Parakeet C. cooki (formerly considered a subspecies of C. novaezelandiae).
  Society Parakeet C. ulietanus (extinct)

The two forms of C. erythrotis may be distinct species: the single specimen believed to be from Macquarie Island (Canterbury Museum specimen AV2099, O'Connor catalog 369) in Boon et al.'s analysis has turned out to be from the Antipodes Islands population (hochstetteri) instead (Scofield, 2005).

References

• Boon, W.M.; Kearvell, J.; Daugherty, C. H.; Chambers, G. K. (2001): Molecular systematics and conservation of kakariki (Cyanoramphus spp.). Science for Conservation 176 PDF fulltext
• Scofield, R. Paul (2005): The supposed Macquarie Island parakeet in the collection of Canterbury Museum. Notornis 52(2): 117-120. PDF fulltext