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Cacatua

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Cacatua
Cacatua galerita
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Cacatuidae
Subfamily: Cacatuinae
Genus: Cacatua
Vieillot, 1817
Type species[1]
Cacatua cristata = Psittacus albus
Vieillot, 1817
Species

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Cacatua is a genus of cockatoos known as great 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.

Taxonomy

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Cacatua sp - MHNT

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

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The genus contains 13 species.[9]

Subgenus Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Cacatua - true white cockatoos Cacatua sulphurea Yellow-crested (or lesser sulphur-crested) cockatoo, East Timor and Indonesia's islands of Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas
Cacatua citrinocristata Citron-crested cockatoo Sumba in the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia
Cacatua galerita Sulphur-crested cockatoo Australia, and New Guinea and some of the islands of Indonesia
Cacatua ophthalmica Blue-eyed cockatoo New Britain in Papua New Guinea
Cacatua alba White (or umbrella) cockatoo Halmahera, Bacan, Ternate, Tidore, Kasiruta and Mandioli (Bacan group) in North Maluku, Indonesia
Cacatua moluccensis Salmon-crested (or Moluccan) cockatoo Seram archipelago in eastern Indonesia
Licmetis - corellas Cacatua tenuirostris Long-billed corella Australia
Cacatua pastinator Western corella South-western Australia
Cacatua sanguinea Little corella Australia and southern New Guinea
Cacatua goffiniana Tanimbar corella (or Goffin's cockatoo) Yamdena, Larat and Selaru, all islands in the Tanimbar Islands archipelago in Indonesia
Cacatua ducorpsii Solomons corella (or Ducorps's cockatoo) Solomon Islands archipelago
Cacatua haematuropygia Red-vented (or Philippine) cockatoo Philippines
Lophochroa - pink cockatoos Cacatua leadbeateri Pink (or Major Mitchell's/Leadbeater's) cockatoo Interior and western Australia

References

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  1. ↑ "Psittacidae". Howard & Moore Checklist Online. 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.
  • Juniper, T., & M. Parr (1998). A Guide to the Parrots of the World. Pica Press, East Sussex. ISBN 1-873403-40-2
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