Pezoporus

Taxobox
name = "Pezoporus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Psittaciformes
familia = Psittacidae
subfamilia = Platycercinae
tribus = Platycercini
genus = "Pezoporus"
genus_authority = Illiger, 1811
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Pezoporus occidentalis"
"Pezoporus wallicus"
synonyms="Geopsittacus"

The genus "Pezoporus" contains two Australian species: the Night Parrot ("Pezoporus occidentalis") and the Ground Parrot ("Pezoporus wallicus"). The former species was previously separated in a distinct genus, "Geopsittacus". It is considered a part of the tribe Platycercini or, if this is considered a subfamily, the monotypic tribe Pezoporini. Its closest relatives are some other small broad-tailed parrots of the genus "Neophema", and perhaps the Budgerigar ("Melopsittacus undulatus"), and modern research suggests that the genus should not be considered a tribe of its own but included with these, if the broad-tailed parrots are raised to subfamily status (Christidis "et al.", 1991; Leeton "et al.", 1994).

pecies list

*Tribe Platycercini
**Genus "Pezoporus"
***Night Parrot ("Pezoporus occidentalis")
***Ground Parrot ("Pezoporus wallicus")

References

* Christidis, Leslie; Schodde, R.; Shaw, D. D. & Maynes, S. F. (1991): Relationships among the Australo-Papuan Parrots, Lorikeets, and Cockatoos (Aves, Psittaciformes): Protein Evidence. "Condor" 93(2): 302-317. [http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Condor/files/issues/v093n02/p0302-p0317.pdf PDF fulltext]

* Leeton, Peter R. J., Christidis, Leslie, Westerman, Michael & Boles, Walter E. (1994): Molecular phylogenetic relationships of the Night Parrot ("Geopsittacus occidentalis") and the Ground Parrot ("Pezoporus wallicus"). "Auk" 111(4): 833-843 [http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v111n04/p0833-p0843.pdf PDF fulltext]