The genus Polytelis (literally translates into 'magnificent') of the family Psittaculidae consists of three species long-tailed parrot endemic to Australia. Traditionally, it was included in the Australian broad-tailed parrots (tribe Platycercini),[2] but molecular studies place the genus within the Polytelini.
A 2017 molecular study placed the regent parrot as an early offshoot to the genus Asprosmictus and not as closely related to the other two species.[3]
^"Psittaculidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
^Forshaw, Joseph M.; Cooper, William T. (1981) [1973, 1978]. Parrots of the World (corrected second ed.). David & Charles, Newton Abbot, London. ISBN 0-7153-7698-5.
^Provost, Kaiya L.; Joseph, Leo; Smith, Brian Tilston (2018). "Resolving a phylogenetic hypothesis for parrots: Implications from systematics to conservation". Emu - Austral Ornithology. 118: 7–21. doi:10.1080/01584197.2017.1387030. S2CID 52995298.
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