Coconut lorikeet | |
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At Jurong Bird Park, Singapore | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Psittaciformes |
Family: | Psittaculidae |
Genus: | Trichoglossus |
Species: | T. haematodus
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Binomial name | |
Trichoglossus haematodus (Linnaeus, 1771)
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The coconut lorikeet (Trichoglossus haematodus), also known as the green-naped lorikeet, is a parrot in the family Psittaculidae. Seven species of lorikeets now recognised were once lumped together under Trichoglossus haematodus.[1]