Touit
Sign in to saveTouit is a genus of Neotropical parrots in the family Psittacidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderPsittaciformes
- FamilyPsittacidae
Observations recorded19,368
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 176
- With media
- 27
- Family
- Psittacidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CM, ROM, CUMV, UMZC, USNM
- Recorded in
- Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Costa Rica, Trinidad And Tobago
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- New World parrots
- Image
- Touit melanonota -Ubatuba, Sao Paulo, Brazil-8.jpg
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- Category:Touit
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- taxon range
- Brazil
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Touit is a genus of Neotropical parrots in the family Psittacidae.
The genus was introduced by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the scarlet-shouldered parrotlet (Touit huetii) as the type species. The genus name is derived from the extinct Tupi language that was spoken by native people in Brazil: Tuí eté means "really little parrot". In 1648 the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave used Tuiete for a small parrot in his Historia Naturalis Brasiliae.
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