Loriinae

Quality 0.50 · 1 view · Updated 2 months ago

Subfamily of birds

title: "Loriinae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bird-subfamilies", "parrots", "taxa-named-by-prideaux-john-selby"] description: "Subfamily of birds" topic_path: "general/bird-subfamilies" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loriinae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Subfamily of birds ::

| name = Loriinae | image = Rainbow lorikeet.jpg | image_caption = Rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) | taxon = Loriinae | authority = Selby, 1836 | subdivision_ranks = Tribes | subdivision =

Loriinae is a subfamily of psittacine birds, one of the six subfamilies that make up the family Psittaculidae. It consists of three tribes, the lories and lorikeets (Loriini), the budgerigar (Melopsittacini) and the fig parrots (Cyclopsittini), which are small birds, mostly of bright colors and inhabitants of Oceania and the islands of Southeast Asia.

Taxonomy

The subfamily Loriinae was introduced in 1836 (as Loriana and Lorianae) by the English naturalist Prideaux John Selby in his book The Natural History of Parrots. but currently they are classified as a tribe, Loriini, within a larger subfamily Loriinae. The genetic studies showed that the lories are closely related to the budgerigar and the fig parrots of the genera Cyclopsitta and Psittaculirostris, that form the other two tribes that make up the subfamily, Melopsittacini and Cyclopsittini, respectively. Loriinae is integrated as one of the five subfamilies of the family Psittaculidae, together with Psittaculinae, Platycercinae, Psittacellinae, Agapornithinae; and in turn Psittaculidae forms together with two families more the superfamily Psittacoidea.

Genera

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Vini_australis_-two_on_a_perch-8a-4c.jpg" caption="''[[Vini australis]]''"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Scalybreastedlorikeet.jpg" caption="''[[Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus]]''"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Musk_Lorikeet_jul08.jpg" caption="''[[Glossopsitta concinna]]''"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Chalcopsitta_sintillata_-Fuengirola_Zoo-8-1c.jpg" caption="''[[Chalcopsitta scintillata]]''"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Budgerigar-strzelecki-qld.jpg" caption="''[[Melopsittacus undulatus]]''"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Cyclopsitta_gulielmitertii_qtl1.jpg" caption="''[[Cyclopsitta gulielmitertii]]''"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Psittaculirostris_edwardsii.jpg" caption="''[[Psittaculirostris edwardsii]]''"] ::

The subfamily includes the following genera and tribes:

Tribe Loriini:

References

References

  1. Selby, Prideaux John. (1836). "The Natural History of Parrots". W.H. Lizards.
  2. (1981). "Parrots of the World". David & Charles, Newton Abbot, London.
  3. (2008). "A multilocus molecular phylogeny of the parrots (Psittaciformes): support for a Gondwanan origin during the Cretaceous". Molecular Biology and Evolution.
  4. Astuti, Dwi. (2006). "Phylogenetic relationships within parrots (Psittacidae) inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene sequences.". Zoological Science.
  5. de Kloet, RS. (2005). "The evolution of the spindlin gene in birds: Sequence analysis of an intron of the spindlin W and Z gene reveals four major divisions of the Psittaciformes". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
  6. (30 October 2007). "Evolution of craniofacial novelty in parrots through developmental modularity and heterochrony". Evolution & Development.
  7. (1991). "Relationships among the Australo-Papuan Parrots, Lorikeets, and Cockatoos (Aves: Psittaciformes): Protein Evidence". Condor.
  8. (2012). "A revised nomenclature and classification for family-group taxa of parrots (Psittaciformes)". Zootaxa.
  9. (2020). "Improved systematics of lorikeets reflects their evolutionary history and frames conservation priorities". Emu - Austral Ornithology.
  10. (July 2021). "Parrots, cockatoos". International Ornithologists' Union.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::

bird-subfamiliesparrotstaxa-named-by-prideaux-john-selby