Racket-tail
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The genus Prioniturus, commonly known as racket-tails, contains ten species in the parrot family Psittaculidae that are found in the Philippines and Indonesia. They are easily distinguished from all other parrots by their elongated central tail feathers with the bare shaft and spatula at the end.
The genus Prioniturus, commonly known as racket-tails, contains ten species in the parrot family Psittaculidae that are found in the Philippines and Indonesia. They are easily distinguished from all other parrots by their elongated central tail feathers with the bare shaft and spatula at the end.
Taxonomy
The genus Prioniturus was introduced in 1832 by the German naturalist Johann Georg Wagler to accommodate a single species, Psittacus platurus Vieillot, the golden-mantled racket-tail. This is the type species of the genus. The word Prioniturus combines the genus name Prionites introduced for the motmots by the German zoologist Johann Illiger in 1811, with the Ancient Greek - (-ourá), meaning "tail". The genus contains the following ten species:
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