Polytelis
{{Short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Polytelis anthopeplus pair.jpg
| image_caption = Regent parrots,
Polytelis anthopeplus
| taxon = Polytelis
| authority = Wagler, 1832
| type_species = Psittacus barrabandi{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=218 |title= Psittaculidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-07-24}}
| type_species_authority = Swainson, 1821
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = Polytelis alexandrae
}}
The genus Polytelis (literally translates into 'magnificent') of the family Psittaculidae consists of three species long-tailed parrot endemic to Australia. Traditionally, it was included in the Australian broad-tailed parrots (tribe Platycercini),{{cite book | first= Joseph M.| last= Forshaw|author2=Cooper, William T.|year= 1981|orig-date=1973, 1978|edition=corrected second| title= Parrots of the World|publisher=David & Charles, Newton Abbot, London|isbn=0-7153-7698-5}} but molecular studies place the genus within the Polytelini.
A 2017 molecular study placed the regent parrot as an early offshoot to the genus Asprosmictus and not as closely related to the other two species.{{cite journal |doi=10.1080/01584197.2017.1387030|title=Resolving a phylogenetic hypothesis for parrots: Implications from systematics to conservation|year=2018|last1=Provost|first1=Kaiya L.|last2=Joseph|first2=Leo|last3=Smith|first3=Brian Tilston|journal=Emu - Austral Ornithology|volume=118|issue=1 |pages=7–21|bibcode=2018EmuAO.118....7P |s2cid=52995298}}
Taxonomy
{{Species table |genus=Polytelis |authority-name= Wagler |authority-year=1832 |species-count=three|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}
{{Species table/row
|name= Superb parrot|binomial=Polytelis swainsonii
|image=File:Polytelis swainsonii - Canberra.jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Desmarest |authority-year=1826 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= New South Wales and Victoria.
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|range-image-size=180px
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|iucn-status= LC
|population=
|direction=
}}
{{Species table/row
|name= Regent parrot|binomial=Polytelis anthopeplus
|image=File:Polytelis anthopeplus -Australia-8.jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Lear |authority-year=1831 |authority-not-original=yes
|range= southern Australia.
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|range-image-size=180px
|size=
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|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies={{Collapsible list |expand=yes |title=Two subspecies |bullets=on
| Polytelis anthopeplus anthopeplus (Lear) 1831
|Polytelis anthopeplus monarchoides Schodde 1993
}}
}}
{{Species table/row
|name= Princess parrot or Princess Of Wales (POW) parakeet|binomial=Polytelis alexandrae
|image=File:Polytelis alexandrae -Bloedel Conservatory, Vancouver, Canada -male-8a.jpg |image-size=180px |image-alt=
|authority-name=Gould |authority-year=1863 |authority-not-original=
|range=Australia
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|range-image-size=180px
|size=
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|iucn-status=NT
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}}
{{Species table/end}}
References
{{Reflist}}
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Category:Endemic birds of Australia
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