Lord Howe parakeet

Lord Howe parakeet
Illustration by Keulemans, 1891

Extinct (1869)  (EPBC Act)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Psittaculidae
Genus: Cyanoramphus
Species:
†C. subflavescens
Binomial name
†Cyanoramphus subflavescens
Synonyms
  • Cyanoramphus novaezelandiae subflavescens
  • Cyanoramphus cookii subflavescens

The Lord Howe parakeet (Cyanoramphus subflavescens),[2][3] also known as the Lord Howe red-fronted parakeet, is an extinct parrot endemic to Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea, part of New South Wales, Australia. It was described as full species by Tommaso Salvadori in 1891, but subsequently it has been regarded as subspecies of the red-crowned parakeet. In 2012, the IOC World Bird List recognised it as species.[2]

  1. ^ Salvadori, T. (1891). Descriptions of two new species of parrots of the genus Cyanoramphus in the British Museum. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 7(6): 68.
  2. ^ a b IOC world birdnames Archived 2012-08-06 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Julian Pender Hume & Michale Walters: Extinct Birds p 171