Genus of birds
This article is about the genus of birds. For the lens series, see
Carl Zeiss Touit .
Touit is a genus of Neotropical parrots in the family Psittacidae .
The genus was introduced by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the scarlet-shouldered parrotlet (Touit huetii ) as the type species .[ 2] The genus name is derived from the extinct Tupi language that was spoken by native people in Brazil: Tuí eté means "really little parrot".[ 3] In 1648 the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave used Tuiete for a small parrot in his Historia Naturalis Brasiliae .[ 4]
The genus contains the following eight species:[ 5]
Image
Scientific name
Common Name
Distribution
Touit batavicus
Lilac-tailed parrotlet
Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
Touit huetii
Scarlet-shouldered parrotlet
Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
Touit costaricensis
Red-fronted parrotlet
Central America in Costa Rica and Panama
Touit dilectissimus
Blue-fronted parrotlet or red-winged parrotlet
coastal Andes to Peru
Touit purpuratus
Sapphire-rumped parrotlet
Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Touit melanonotus
Brown-backed parrotlet
south-eastern Brazil from Bahia to southern São Paulo
Touit surdus
Golden-tailed parrotlet
eastern Brazil.
Touit stictopterus
Spot-winged parrotlet
Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
References
External links
Media related to Touit at Wikimedia Commons
Genera of
parrots and their extinct allies