What is John Latham’s Rose-fronted Parrot?

John James Wilson; Clemency Fisher; Tereza Senfeld; J. Martin Collinson

doi:10.25226/bboc.v143i4.2023.a8

What is John Latham’s Rose-fronted Parrot?

John James Wilson, Clemency Fisher, Tereza Senfeld, J. Martin Collinson

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Abstract

In 1822, John Latham gave the name Rose-fronted Parrot to a single specimen owned by Edward Smith Stanley. This specimen, now at World Museum, Liverpool, has never been given a formal scientific name but had been thought to be an undescribed, possibly extinct species, or an unusual young individual of the genus Psittacula. Based on a short mitochondrial DNA sequence obtained from the specimen that has 100% similarity with sequences on NCBI GenBank, we conclude that the most plausible identity of the Rose-fronted Parrot is a juvenile Plum-headed Parakeet Psittacula cyanocephala.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	559-563
Number of pages	5
Journal	Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club
Volume	143
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v143i4.2023.a8
Publication status	Published - 4 Dec 2023

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We are grateful to two reviewers whose comments substantially improved the submitted manuscript.

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