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Eos

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EntityQ921151· pop 31

genus of parrots

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassAves
  4. OrderPsittaciformes
  5. FamilyPsittacidae
Observations recorded1,256

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
8
With media
1
Family
Psittacidae
Collections
CUMV, NHMUK, UAM
Recorded in
Philippines, Indonesia

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Loriinae
Image
Eos bornea -Buffalo Zoo-8c-3c.jpg
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Commons category
Eos (genus)
taxon rank
genus
taxon name
Eos
topic's main category
Category:Eos (bird)
Commons gallery
Eos (genus)
Sources (1)

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Encyclopedic overview

Trichoglossus is a genus of lorikeet in the Psittaculidae family, part of the true parrot superfamily. The genus is distributed widely through Australia, Wallacea and Melanesia, with outliers in the Philippines and Micronesia. Members of the genus are characterised by barring, sometimes prominently, on the upper breast.

Taxonomy

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Gallery (3)