| Black-fronted parakeet | |
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| Illustration from 1849 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittaculidae |
| Genus: | Cyanoramphus |
| Species: | †C. zealandicus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Cyanoramphus zealandicus (Latham, 1790)
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| Synonyms | |
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Psittacus zealandicus Latham, 1790 | |
The extinct black-fronted parakeet or Tahiti parakeet (Cyanoramphus zealandicus) was endemic to the Pacific island of Tahiti. Its native name was simply ’ā’ā ("parrot") according to Latham (1790) though White (1887) gives "aa-maha".[2]
It was discovered on James Cook's first voyage in 1769, on which the two specimens now in Liverpool and the one in the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum in Tring appear to have been collected. Two of them - one of those in Liverpool and the Tring specimen - may also have been taken on Cook's second voyage, in 1773, but the type was painted by Sydney Parkinson who had died in 1771. Another specimen, collected by Amadis in 1842, is in the museum at Perpignan. The last known specimen was collected in 1844 by Lieutenant des Marolles, and is now housed in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Cyanoramphus zealandicus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22685182A93061882. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22685182A93061882.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Etymology: After Tregear (1891), probably means "plentiful parrot". For the Samoan parrots used in the feather trade - probably blue-crowned lories (Vini australis) - Tregear (1891) records the Tahitian name "aa-taevao", "parrot imported from abroads".