Zanda (bird)

The genus Zanda has three species of cockatoos. They are all mostly black in colour, and the taxa may be differentiated partly by size and partly by small areas of red, grey, and yellow plumage, especially in the tail feathers.

SubgenusImageScientific nameCommon nameSubspeciesDistribution
Zanda - black-and-yellow/white cockatoos Zanda funerea Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
  • Zanda funerea funerea
  • Zanda funerea whiteae (not widely accepted)[1]
  • Zanda funerea xanthanota
south-east of Australia
Zanda latirostris Carnaby's black cockatoo southwest Australia
Zanda baudinii Baudin's black cockatoo southwest Australia

Zanda
Yellow-tailed black cockatoo, Zanda funerea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Cacatuidae
Subfamily: Calyptorhynchinae
Genus: Zanda
Mathews, 1913
Species

3

References

  1. Higgins, p. 76.

Further reading

  • Astuti, Dwi (2004?). "A phylogeny of cockatoos (Aves: Psittaciformes) inferred from DNA sequences of the seventh intron of nuclear β-fibrinogen gene". Doctoral work, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan.
  • Brown, D.M.; Toft, C.A. (1999). "Molecular systematics and biogeography of the cockatoos (Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae)". Auk. 116 (1): 141–157. doi:10.2307/4089461. JSTOR 4089461.
  • Higgins, P.J. (1999). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Volume 4: Parrots to Dollarbird. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-553071-1.
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