| Pyrilia | |
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| Orange-cheeked parrot | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittacidae |
| Tribe: | Androglossini |
| Genus: | Pyrilia Bonaparte, 1856 |
| Type species | |
| Pyrilia typica[1] Bonaparte, 1856
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| Diversity | |
| 7 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Gypopsitta | |
Pyrilia is a genus of parrots in the family Psittacidae. It was recently split from the now-monotypic Pionopsitta, and then briefly moved to Gypopsitta. But as Pyrilia was published a few months before Gypopsitta, the latter is a junior synonym.[2]
All are relatively short-tailed parrots that are restricted to forests in the Neotropics. Their head or face contrasts clearly with the mainly green body, and they have a brownish or olive patch on the chest.
- ^ "Psittacidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
- ^ Use of Pyrilia over Gypospsitta Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine. Richard C. Banks, February 2008, to the South American Classification Committee. Accessed 2008-06-22