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Purple-naped Lory

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Psittaciformes
Family:	Psittacidae
Genus:	Lorius
Species:	L. 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 A vulnerable species is a Species which is likely to become endangered unless the circumstances threatening its survival and reproduction improve 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 Species Lorius is a genus of Parrot in the Psittacidae family domicella

Binomial name

Lorius domicella
(Linnaeus, 1758)

The Purple-naped Lory, Lorius domicella is a forest-dwelling parrot endemic to the islands of Seram, Ambon, and perhaps also Haruku and Saparua, South Maluku, Indonesia. Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as, May 23 new style (13 May old style 1707 who laid the foundations for Seram (formerly Ceram, also called Seran or Serang is an Island in the Maluku province of Indonesia. Saparua is an island east of Ambon Island in the Indonesian province of Maluku. The Republic of Indonesia ( (Republik Indonesia is a Country in Southeast Asia. It is considered vulnerable, the main threat being from trapping for the cage-bird trade.

References

BirdLife International (2004). Lorius domicella. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List) created in 1963 is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 7 January 2007. Database entry includes justification for why this species is vulnerable

External links

BirdLife Species Factsheet.

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