Pezoporini

Tribe of birds

Pezoporini

Western ground parrot, Pezoporus flaviventris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Psittaciformes
Family:	Psittaculidae
Subfamily:	Platycercinae
Tribe:	Pezoporini Bonaparte, 1837
Genera
Neopsephotus Neophema Pezoporus

The tribe Pezoporini is the sister clade of the tribe Platycercini that contains the broad-tailed parrots.

Taxonomy

The inclusion of the following taxon is based on the paper by Joseph et al. (2012).^[1]

Genus Neophema
- Blue-winged parrot, Neophema chrysostoma
- Elegant parrot, Neophema elegans
- Rock parrot, Neophema petrophilla
- Orange-bellied parrot, Neophema chrysogaster
- Turquoise parrot, Neophema pulchella
- Scarlet-chested parrot, Neophema splendida
Genus Neopsephotus - sometimes included in Neophema
- Bourke's parrot, Neopsephotus bourkii
Genus Pezoporus
- Ground parrot, Pezoporus wallicus
- Night parrot, Pezoporus occidentalis

^ Leo Joseph; Alicia Toon; Erin E. Schirtzinger; Timothy F. Wright; Richard Schodde (2012). "A revised nomenclature and classification for family-group taxa of parrots (Psittaciformes)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3205: 26–40. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2013-07-05.