Touit | |
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Brown-backed parrotlet, Touit melanonotus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Psittaciformes |
Family: | Psittacidae |
Subfamily: | Arinae |
Genus: | Touit G.R. Gray, 1855 |
Type species | |
Psittacus huetii[1] Temminck, 1830
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Species | |
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Touit is a genus of Neotropical parrots in the family Psittacidae.
The genus was introduced by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the scarlet-shouldered parrotlet (Touit huetii) as the type species.[2] The genus name is derived from the extinct Tupi language that was spoken by native people in Brazil: Tuí eté means "really little parrot".[3] In 1648 the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave used Tuiete for a small parrot in his Historia Naturalis Brasiliae.[4]
The genus contains the following eight species:[5]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Touit batavicus | Lilac-tailed parrotlet | Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela | |
Touit huetii | Scarlet-shouldered parrotlet | Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela | |
Touit costaricensis | Red-fronted parrotlet | Central America in Costa Rica and Panama | |
Touit dilectissimus | Blue-fronted parrotlet or red-winged parrotlet | coastal Andes to Peru | |
Touit purpuratus | Sapphire-rumped parrotlet | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. | |
Touit melanonotus | Brown-backed parrotlet | south-eastern Brazil from Bahia to southern São Paulo | |
Touit surdus | Golden-tailed parrotlet | eastern Brazil. | |
Touit stictopterus | Spot-winged parrotlet | Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |