Cacatua

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Cacatua
Cacatua galerita -perching on branch -crest-8a-2c.jpg
Cacatua galerita
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Cacatuidae
Subfamily: Cacatuinae
Genus: Cacatua
Vieillot, 1817
Type species
Cacatua cristata [1] = Psittacus albus
Vieillot, 1817
Species

§ Species

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Cacatua sp - MHNT

Cacatua is a genus of cockatoos found from the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands to Australia. They have a primarily white plumage (in some species tinged pinkish or yellow), an expressive crest, and a black (subgenus Cacatua ) or pale (subgenus Licmetis ) bill. Today, several species from this genus are considered threatened due to a combination of habitat loss and capture for the wild-bird trade, with the blue-eyed cockatoo considered vulnerable, Moluccan cockatoo, and umbrella cockatoo considered endangered, and the red-vented cockatoo, yellow-crested cockatoo and citron-crested cockatoo considered critically endangered.

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Taxonomy

Although the name Cacatua was used in 1760 by French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson, he did not include it in his table of genera and Brisson is not recognised as the authority by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). [2] [3] The genus Kakatoe was introduced by Georges Cuvier in 1801 but this name has been suppressed by the ICZN and instead Louis Pierre Vieillot is recognised as introducing the genus Cacatua in 1817. [3] [4] [5] The type species was designated as the white cockatoo by Tommaso Salvadori in 1891. [6] [7] The name Cacatua is from the Malay language words Kakatuá and Kakak-tuá for the cockatoos. [8]

Species

The genus contains 13 species. [9]

SubgenusImageCommon nameScientific nameDistribution
Cacatua - true white cockatoos White Cockatoo eating clover-1 (5660422766).jpg Yellow-crested (or lesser sulphur-crested) cockatoo,Cacatua sulphureaEast Timor and Indonesia's islands of Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas
Citron-crested Cockatoo.jpg Citron-crested cockatoo Cacatua citrinocristata Sumba in the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia
Cacatua galerita Risdon.jpg Sulphur-crested cockatoo Cacatua galeritaAustralia, and New Guinea and some of the islands of Indonesia
Cacatua ophthalmica -Vogelpark Walsrode-6b-3c.jpg Blue-eyed cockatoo Cacatua ophthalmicaNew Britain in Papua New Guinea
Cacatua alba -Pairi Daiza, Hainaut, Belgium-8a.jpg White (or umbrella) cockatoo Cacatua albaHalmahera, Bacan, Ternate, Tidore, Kasiruta and Mandioli (Bacan group) in North Maluku, Indonesia
Cacatua moluccensis -Cincinnati Zoo-8a.jpg Salmon-crested (or Moluccan) cockatoo Cacatua moluccensisSeram archipelago in eastern Indonesia
Licmetis - corellas Long-billed Corella (Cacatua tenuirostris) (8079603537).jpg Long-billed corella Cacatua tenuirostrisAustralia
Cacatua pastinator -Blackpool Zoo-8a.jpg Western corella Cacatua pastinatorSouth-western Australia
Cacatua sanguinea upright crop.jpg Little corella Cacatua sanguineaAustralia and southern New Guinea
Cacatua goffiniana -in tree-6.jpg Tanimbar corella (or Goffin's cockatoo) Cacatua goffinianaYamdena, Larat and Selaru, all islands in the Tanimbar Islands archipelago in Indonesia
Cacatua ducorpsii-5-2c.jpg Solomons corella (or Ducorps's cockatoo) Cacatua ducorpsiiSolomon Islands archipelago
Cacatua haematuropygia.jpg Red-vented (or Philippine) cockatoo Cacatua haematuropygiaPhilippines
Lophochroa - pink cockatoos Major Mitchell's Cockatoo (Lophochroa leadbeateri) (8079601633).jpg Pink (or Major Mitchell's/Leadbeater's) cockatoo Cacatua leadbeateriInterior and western Australia

References

  1. "Psittacidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
  2. Allen, J.A. (1910). "Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 28: 317–335. hdl:2246/678.
  3. 1 2 Bock, Walter J.; Schodde, Richard (1998). "Case 1647: Cacatua Vieillot, 1817 and Cacatuinae Gray, 1840 (Aves, Psittaciformes): proposed conservation". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 21: 159–164. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.175 .
  4. "Opinion 1949: Cacatua Vieillot, 1817 and Cacatuinae Gray, 1840 (Aves, Psittaciformes): conserved". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 57 (1): 66–67. 2000.
  5. Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1817). Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc (in French). Vol. 17 (Nouvelle édition ed.). Paris: Deterville. p. 6. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.20211.
  6. Salvadori, Tommaso (1891). Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots, in the collection of the British Museum. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. 20. London: British Museum. pp. 115, 124.
  7. Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V. Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 354. ISBN   978-0-9568611-0-8.
  8. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 82. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  9. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Parrots, cockatoos". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 September 2024.