Forpus | |
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Male cobalt-rumped parrotlet (Forpus xanthopterygius) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Psittaciformes |
Family: | Psittacidae |
Subfamily: | Arinae |
Tribe: | Forpini |
Genus: | Forpus Boie, F, 1858 |
Type species | |
Psittacus passerinus (green-rumped parrotlet) Linnaeus, 1758
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Species | |
9; see text |
Forpus is a genus of neotropical parrots in the family Psittacidae. It is the only genus in the Forpini tribe of the subfamily Arinae.