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Cacatuidae (cockatoo)
Taxonomy
Cacatuidae was named by Gray (1840). It is extant.
It was assigned to Psittaciformes by Baird (1992), Livezey and Zusi (2007), del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Clements et al. (2017).
It was assigned to Psittaciformes by Baird (1992), Livezey and Zusi (2007), del Hoyo et al. (2014) and Clements et al. (2017).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1840 | Cacatuidae Gray |
| 1992 | Cacatuidae Baird p. 27 |
| 2007 | Cacatuidae Livezey and Zusi p. 93 |
| 2014 | Cacatuidae del Hoyo et al. |
| 2017 | Cacatuidae Clements et al. |
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Fm. Cacatuidae Gray 1840 [cockatoo]
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G. Cacatua Vieillot 1817
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Cacatua galerita Latham 1790 [Sulphur-crested cockatoo]
Cacatua sulphurea Gmelin 1788 [Yellow-crested cockatoo]
Cacatua tenuirostris Kuhl 1820 [Long-billed corella]
Invalid names: Plyctolophus Vieillot 1816 [synonym]
Subfm. Calyptorhynchinae Bonaparte 1853
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G. Zanda Matthews 1913 [Black-cockatoos]
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Zanda baudinii Lear 1832 [Long-billed black-cockatoo]
Zanda funerea Shaw 1794 [Yellow-tailed black-cockatoo]
Zanda latirostris Carnaby 1948 [Short-billed black-cockatoo]
G. Calyptorhynchus Desmarest 1826
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Calyptorhynchus banksii Latham 1790 [Red-tailed black-cockatoo]
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Invalid names: Psittacus magnificus Shaw 1790 [replaced]
Calyptorhynchus lathami Temminck 1807 [Glossy black-cockatoo]
Subfm. Nymphicinae Astuti 2004
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Benton 1983, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Pleistocene to the top of the Holocene or 0.12900 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0117 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0117 Ma
Collections (3 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Australia (South Australia) | Cacatuidae indet., Cacatua tenuirostris, Calyptorhynchus lathami, Callocephalon fimbriatum, Calyptorhynchus magnificus (136157) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene | Papua New Guinea | Cacatua sp. (194694) | |
| Holocene | Australia (Victoria) | Cacatua roseicapilla, Cacatua tenuirostris (138410) |