Western Rosella
Platycercus icterotis(Temminck, CJ; Kuhl, H, 1820)
English (US) Western Rosella
The Western Rosella (Platycercus icterotis) 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.
- Scientific name
- Platycercus icterotis
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Western Rosella
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ; Kuhl, H, 1820)
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Add Your ExpertiseRecognised subspecies
The AviList checklist recognises 2 subspecies for this species.
- Platycercus icterotis icterotis
- Platycercus icterotis xanthogenys
Taxonomic history
- First described as
- Psittacus icterotis
- Described by
- (Temminck, CJ; Kuhl, H, 1820)
- Type locality
- New Holland = southwestern Australia, erroneously restricted to Sharks Bay, West Australia by Mathews, Nov. Zool., 18, 1912, p. 273, and corrected to Albany, southwestern Australia by Mathews, Bds. Austr., 6, 1917, p. 335.
- Original description
- Nova Acta Physico-medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosum 10 p.54
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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