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Guadeloupe Parrot
Plate 1 of 2. Creator:John Gerrard Keulemans, no known copyright restrictions (public domain) · via iNaturalist
IUCN EX · Extinct

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Guadeloupe Amazon

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Guadeloupe Parrot

Amazona violacea

The Guadeloupe amazon or Guadeloupe parrot (Amazona violacea) is a hypothetical extinct species of parrot that is thought to have been endemic to the Lesser Antillean island region of Guadeloupe. Mentioned and described by 17th and 18th century writers, it received a scientific name in 1789. It was moved to the genus Amazona in 1905, and is thought to have been related to, or possibly the same as, the extant imperial amazon. A tibiotarsus and an...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 93796.