Touit

This article is about the genus of birds. For the lens series, see Carl Zeiss Touit.

Touit
Brown-backed parrotlet, Touit melanonotus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Psittaciformes
Family:	Psittacidae
Subfamily:	Arinae
Genus:	Touit G.R. Gray, 1855
Type species
Psittacus huetii [1] Temminck, 1830
Species
see text

Touit is a genus of Neotropical parrots in the family Psittacidae.

The genus was introduced by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the scarlet-shouldered parrotlet (Touit huetii) as the type species. ^[2] The genus name is derived from the extinct Tupi language that was spoken by native people in Brazil: Tuí eté means "really little parrot". ^[3] In 1648 the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave used Tuiete for a small parrot in his Historia Naturalis Brasiliae . ^[4]

The genus contains the following eight species: ^[5]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Touit batavicus	Lilac-tailed parrotlet	Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
	Touit huetii	Scarlet-shouldered parrotlet	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
	Touit costaricensis	Red-fronted parrotlet	Central America in Costa Rica and Panama
	Touit dilectissimus	Blue-fronted parrotlet or red-winged parrotlet	coastal Andes to Peru
	Touit purpuratus	Sapphire-rumped parrotlet	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
	Touit melanonotus	Brown-backed parrotlet	south-eastern Brazil from Bahia to southern São Paulo
	Touit surdus	Golden-tailed parrotlet	eastern Brazil.
	Touit stictopterus	Spot-winged parrotlet	Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru

References

1. "Psittacidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
2. Gray, George Robert (1855). Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. London: British Museum. p. 89.
3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p.  388. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
4. Marcgrave, Georg (1648). Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (in Latin). Vol. Liber Quintus: Qui agit de Avibus. Lugdun and Batavorum (London and Leiden): Franciscum Hackium and Elzevirium. p. 206.
5. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "Parrots, cockatoos". World Bird List Version 9.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 11 August 2019.

External links

• Media related to Touit at Wikimedia Commons