Charmosyna
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Charmosyna | |
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A male Red-flanked Lorikeet | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Psittaciformes |
Superfamily: | Psittacoidea |
Family: | Psittaculidae |
Subfamily: | Loriinae |
Tribe: | Loriini |
Genus: | Charmosyna Wagler, 1832 |
Charmosyna is a genus of parrot in the Psittaculidae family. It contains the following species:
- Josephine's Lorikeet (Charmosyna josefinae)
- Duchess Lorikeet (Charmosyna margarethae)
- Meek's Lorikeet (Charmosyna meeki)
- Striated Lorikeet (Charmosyna multistriata)
- Palm Lorikeet (Charmosyna palmarum)
- Papuan Lorikeet (Charmosyna papou)
- Red-flanked Lorikeet (Charmosyna placentis)
- Fairy Lorikeet (Charmosyna pulchella)
- Red-chinned Lorikeet (Charmosyna rubrigularis)
- Red-fronted Lorikeet (Charmosyna rubronotata)
- Pygmy Lorikeet (Charmosyna wilhelminae)
- †? New Caledonian Lorikeet (Charmosyna diadema) (possibly extinct, 20th Century?)
- Red-throated Lorikeet (Charmosyna amabilis)
- Blue-fronted Lorikeet (Charmosyna toxopei)
Photographs
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Papuan Lorikeet
(Charmosyna papou goliathina) -
Josephine's Lorikeet (Charmosyna josefinae)
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