Red Shining-Parrot

SCI Name:  Prosopeia tabuensis
Protonym:  Psittacus tabuensis Syst.Nat. 1 pt1 p.317
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Prosopeia
Taxonomy Code:  respar1
Type Locality:  Friendly Islands, i.e. Tonga Tabu, Tonga Islands, ex Latham, Syn., 1, p. 214, no. 16.
Author:  Gmelin, JF
Publish Year:  1788
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PROSOPEIA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Masked Shining Parrot P. personata) Gr. προσωπειον prosōpeion  mask  < προσωπον prosōpon  face; "Subfam. V.  PLATICERCINÆ.   34. PROSOPEIA, Bp. — 159. Personata, Gr." (Bonaparte 1854); "Prosopeia Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2), 6, 1854, p. 153. Type, by monotypy, Coracopsis personata G. R. Gray." (Peters 1937, III, 250).
Synon. Layardiella, Pyrrhulopsis.

tabuanus / tabuensis
Tonga Tabu, Tahiti.
● ex “Tabuan Shrike” of Latham 1781 (Aplonis).
● ex “Tabuan Parrot” of Latham 1781: “This is a beautiful species, and is found at Tongo Tabboo, and the other Friendly Isles in the South Seas”, and Phillip 1789 (Prosopeia).
● ex “Tabuan Rail” of Latham 1785 (Zapornia).

SUBSPECIES

Red Shining-Parrot (tabuensis)
SCI Name: Prosopeia tabuensis tabuensis
tabuanus / tabuensis
Tonga Tabu, Tahiti.
● ex “Tabuan Shrike” of Latham 1781 (Aplonis).
● ex “Tabuan Parrot” of Latham 1781: “This is a beautiful species, and is found at Tongo Tabboo, and the other Friendly Isles in the South Seas”, and Phillip 1789 (Prosopeia).
● ex “Tabuan Rail” of Latham 1785 (Zapornia).

Red Shining-Parrot (taviunensis)
SCI Name: Prosopeia tabuensis taviunensis
taveunensis / taviunensis
Taviuni, Fiji Is.