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The golden parakeet or golden conure,〔(Zipcode Zoo ) URL accessed January 24, 2007.〕 (''Guaruba guarouba''), is a medium-sized golden-yellow Neotropical parrot native to the Amazon Basin of interior northern Brazil. Its plumage is mostly bright yellow, hence its common name, but it also possesses green remiges.〔(Golden Palms - Golden Conure ) URL accessed January 26, 2007.〕 It lives in the drier, upland rainforests in Amazonian Brazil, and is threatened by deforestation and flooding, and also by the now-illegal trapping of wild individuals for the pet trade.〔(Honolulu Zoo ) URL accessed January 24, 2007.〕 It is listed on CITES appendix I.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Species lists (Appendices I, II and III) )〕 German naturalist Georg Marcgraf first described the bird, called ''guaruba'' in his expedition to Dutch Brazil in 1638. Its Portuguese and indigenous name, ''ararajuba'', means small yellow macaw. In aviculture, it is sometimes known as the Queen of Bavaria conure,〔(Aratinga guarouba ) URL accessed January 26, 2007.〕 ==Taxonomy== Formerly classified as ''Aratinga guarouba'' , it is now a species in the monotypic genus ''Guaruba'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】Zoological Nomenclature Resource: Psittaciformes (Version 9.022) )〕 one of numerous genera of New World long-tailed parrots in tribe Arini, which also includes the Central and South American macaws. Tribe Arini together with the Amazonian parrots and a few miscellaneous genera make up subfamily Arinae of Neotropical parrots in family Psittacidae of true parrots.〔http://jboyd.net/Taxo/List12.html#psittaciformes〕 The specific name ''guarouba'' (alternately ''guaruba'') is derived from Old Tupi: ''guará'', "small bird"; and Old Tupi: ''yuba'', "yellow"; hence "small yellow bird". The different spellings of the genus and species names result from the different spellings used by Lesson and Gmelin when they postulated the taxons. The taxonomic convention is to retain the names as spelled by the original authorities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/?article=32 )〕 Molecular studies show that ''Guaruba'' and ''Diopsittaca'' (red-shouldered macaw) are sister genera. It is also closely related to ''Leptosittaca branicki'', (golden-plumed parakeet). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Golden parakeet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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