The Arini tribe of the neotropical parrots is a monophyletic clade of macaws and parakeets (commonly called conures in aviculture) characterized by colorful plumage and long, tapering tails. They occur throughout Mexico, Central America, and South America, the Caribbean and the southern United States. One genus and several species are extinct; another genus is extinct in the wild. Two species are known only through subfossil remains. About a dozen hypothetical extinct species (see Extinct Caribbean macaws) have been described, native to the Caribbean area.[1][2] Among the Arini are some of the rarest birds in the world, such as Spix's macaw, which is extinct in the wild – fewer than 100 specimens survive in captivity. It also contains the largest flighted parrot in the world, the hyacinth macaw. Some species, such as the blue-and-yellow macaw and sun conure are popular pet parrots.

Molecular studies have dated the divergence of the Arini tribe from the ancestral neotropical parrots to late in the Paleogene period about 30–35 million years ago.

Taxonomy

The Arini are one of three recognized clades in subfamily Arinae of neotropical parrots in the family Psittacidae of Afrotropical and neotropical parrots, one of three families of true parrots.

Image Genus Living Species
Anodorhynchus Spix, 1824
Cyanopsitta Bonaparte, 1854
Ara Lacépède, 1799
Orthopsittaca Ridgway, 1912
Primolius Bonaparte, 1857
Diopsittaca Ridgway, 1912
Rhynchopsitta Bonaparte, 1854
Ognorhynchus Bonaparte, 1857
Guaruba Lesson, 1830
Leptosittaca Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1894
Conuropsis† Salvadori, 1891
  • Carolina parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis (extinct)
  • Conuropsis fratercula (extinct, proposed genus Conuropsis contested, known from subfossil remains)
Psittacara Vigors, 1825
Aratinga Spix, 1824
Eupsittula Bonaparte, 1853
Thectocercus Vieillot, 1818
Cyanoliseus Bonaparte, 1854
Pyrrhura Bonaparte, 1856
Enicognathus G.R. Gray, 1840

See also

References

  1. ^ "Mystery Macaws of the West Indies".
  2. ^ Turvey, S. T. (2010). "A new historical record of macaws on Jamaica". Archives of Natural History. 37 (2): 348–351. doi:10.3366/anh.2010.0016.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arini_(tribe)
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