This article is about the genus of birds. For the lens series, see Carl Zeiss Touit.
Touit
Brown-backed parrotlet, Touit melanonotus
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Psittaciformes
Family:
Psittacidae
Subfamily:
Arinae
Genus:
Touit G.R. Gray, 1855
Type species
Psittacus huetii[1]
Temminck, 1830
Species
see text
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.[2] The genus name is derived from the extinct Tupi language that was spoken by native people in Brazil: Tuí eté means "really little parrot".[3] In 1648 the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave used Tuiete for a small parrot in his Historia Naturalis Brasiliae.[4]
The genus contains the following eight species:[5]
Image
Scientific name
Common Name
Distribution
Touit batavicus
Lilac-tailed parrotlet
Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
Touit huetii
Scarlet-shouldered parrotlet
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
Touit costaricensis
Red-fronted parrotlet
Central America in Costa Rica and Panama
Touit dilectissimus
Blue-fronted parrotlet or red-winged parrotlet
coastal Andes to Peru
Touit purpuratus
Sapphire-rumped parrotlet
Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Touit melanonotus
Brown-backed parrotlet
south-eastern Brazil from Bahia to southern São Paulo
Touit surdus
Golden-tailed parrotlet
eastern Brazil.
Touit stictopterus
Spot-winged parrotlet
Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
^"Psittacidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
^Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 89.
^Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 388. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^Marcgrave, Georg (1648). Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (in Latin). Vol. Liber Quintus: Qui agit de Avibus. Lugdun and Batavorum (London and Leiden): Franciscum Hackium and Elzevirium. p. 206.
^Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Parrots, cockatoos". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
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