Purple-crowned Lorikeet
Parvipsitta porphyrocephala(Dietrichsen, L, 1837)
English (US) Purple-crowned Lorikeet
The Purple-crowned Lorikeet (Parvipsitta porphyrocephala) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Psittaculidae (Old World Parrots) in the order Psittaciformes.
Range: southern Australia (southwestern Western Australia, southern South Australia including Kangaroo Island, western Victoria, and south-western New South Wales)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Parvipsitta porphyrocephala
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Purple-crowned Lorikeet
- Described by
- (Dietrichsen, L, 1837)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Trichoglossus porphyrocephalus
- Described by
- (Dietrichsen, L, 1837)
- Type locality
- New Holland = South Australia apud Mathews.
- Original description
- Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 17 p.553
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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