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Plum-faced Lorikeet

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Psittaciformes
Family:	Psittacidae
Subfamily:	Loriinae
Genus:	Oreopsittacus
Species:	O. The conservation status of a Species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species remaining extant either in the present day or the near future Least Concern ( LC) is an IUCN category assigned to extant species or lower taxa which have been evaluated but do not qualify for any other category Chordates ( Phylum Chordata) are a group of Animals that includes the Vertebrates together with several closely related Invertebrates Birds ( class Aves) are bipedal endothermic ( Warm-blooded) Vertebrate animals that lay eggs. Parrots are birds of the roughly 350 Species in 85 genera comprising the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions The true parrots are about 330 species of bird belonging to the Psittacidae family, one of the two "traditional" families in the biological order arfaki

Binomial name

Oreopsittacus arfaki
(Meyer, 1874)

The Plum-faced Lorikeet (Oreopsittacus arfaki) is a species of parrot in the Psittacidae family. Adolf Bernard Meyer (1840 &ndash 1911 was a German Anthropologist, Ornithologist and Entomologist. Parrots are birds of the roughly 350 Species in 85 genera comprising the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions The true parrots are about 330 species of bird belonging to the Psittacidae family, one of the two "traditional" families in the biological order It is monotypic within the genus Oreopsittacus. Monotypic is an adjective that refers to a taxonomic group with only one type: In Botany, "monotypic" means that a Taxon has only It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. The Republic of Indonesia ( (Republik Indonesia is a Country in Southeast Asia. Papua New Guinea (or ˈpæpjuːə in Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini) officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. A habitat (which is Latin for "it inhabits" is an Ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular Species. Montane is a biogeographic term which refers to highland areas located below the Subalpine zone

Source

BirdLife International 2004. Oreopsittacus arfaki. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 24 July 2007.

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