Red-capped Parrot
Purpureicephalus spurius(Kuhl, H, 1820)
English (US) Red-capped Parrot
The Red-capped Parrot (Purpureicephalus spurius) 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: southwestern AustraliaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Purpureicephalus spurius
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Red-capped Parrot
- Described by
- (Kuhl, H, 1820)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Psittacus spurius
- Described by
- (Kuhl, H, 1820)
- Type locality
- New Holland = Albany, southwestern Australia, by designation of Mathews, Nov. Zool., 18, 1912, p. 275.
- Original description
- Nova Acta Physico-medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosum 10 p.52
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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