Cacatua is a genus of cockatoos found from the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands to Australia. They have a primarily white plumage (in some species tinged pinkish or yellow), an expressive crest, and a black (subgenus Cacatua) or pale (subgenus Licmetis) bill. Today, several species from this genus are considered threatened due to a combination of habitat loss and capture for the wild bird trade, with the blue-eyed cockatoo considered vulnerable, Moluccan cockatoo, and umbrella cockatoo considered endangered, and the red-vented cockatoo and yellow-crested cockatoo considered critically endangered.
| Cacatua | |
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| Cacatua galerita | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Cacatuidae |
| Subfamily: | Cacatuinae |
| Genus: | Cacatua Vieillot, 1817 |
| Type species | |
| Cacatua cristata[1] = Psittacus albus Vieillot, 1817
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Taxonomy
editAlthough the name Cacatua was used in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson he did not include it in his table of genera and Brisson is not recognised as the authority by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).[2][3] The genus Kakatoe was introduced by Georges Cuvier in 1801 but this name has been suppressed by the ICZN and instead Louis Pierre Vieillot is recognised as introducing the genus Cacatua in 1817.[3][4][5] The type species was designated as the white cockatoo by Tommaso Salvadori in 1891.[6][7] The name Cacatua is from the Malay language words Kakatuá and Kakak-tuá for the cockatoos.[8]
Species
editThe genus contains 13 species.[9]
| Subgenus | Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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| Cacatua - true white cockatoos | 
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Yellow-crested (or lesser sulphur-crested) cockatoo, | Cacatua sulphurea | East Timor and Indonesia's islands of Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas |
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Citron-crested cockatoo | Cacatua citrinocristata | Sumba in the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia | |
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Sulphur-crested cockatoo | Cacatua galerita | Australia, and New Guinea and some of the islands of Indonesia | |
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Blue-eyed cockatoo | Cacatua ophthalmica | New Britain in Papua New Guinea | |
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White (or umbrella) cockatoo | Cacatua alba | Halmahera, Bacan, Ternate, Tidore, Kasiruta and Mandioli (Bacan group) in North Maluku, Indonesia | |
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Salmon-crested (or Moluccan) cockatoo | Cacatua moluccensis | Seram archipelago in eastern Indonesia | |
| Licmetis - corellas | 
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Long-billed corella | Cacatua tenuirostris | Australia |
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Western corella | Cacatua pastinator | South-western Australia | |
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Little corella | Cacatua sanguinea | Australia and southern New Guinea | |
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Tanimbar corella (or Goffin's cockatoo) | Cacatua goffiniana | Yamdena, Larat and Selaru, all islands in the Tanimbar Islands archipelago in Indonesia | |
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Solomons corella (or Ducorps's cockatoo) | Cacatua ducorpsii | Solomon Islands archipelago | |
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Red-vented (or Philippine) cockatoo | Cacatua haematuropygia | Philippines | |
| Lophochroa - pink cockatoos | 
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Pink (or Major Mitchell's/Leadbeater's) cockatoo | Cacatua leadbeateri | Interior and western Australia |
References
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- ^ "Psittacidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-24.
- ^ Allen, J.A. (1910). "Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 28: 317–335. hdl:2246/678.
- ^ a b Bock, Walter J.; Schodde, Richard (1998). "Case 1647: Cacatua Vieillot, 1817 and Cacatuinae Gray, 1840 (Aves, Psittaciformes): proposed conservation". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 21: 159–164. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.175.
- ^ "Opinion 1949: Cacatua Vieillot, 1817 and Cacatuinae Gray, 1840 (Aves, Psittaciformes): conserved". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 57 (1): 66–67. 2000.
- ^ Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1817). Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle, appliquée aux arts, à l'agriculture, à l'économie rurale et domestique, à la médecine, etc (in French). Vol. 17 (Nouvelle édition ed.). Paris: Deterville. p. 6. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.20211.
- ^ Salvadori, Tommaso (1891). Catalogue of the Psittaci, or Parrots, in the collection of the British Museum. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. 20. London: British Museum. pp. 115, 124.
- ^ Dickinson, E.C.; Remsen, J.V. Jr., eds. (2013). The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. Vol. 1: Non-passerines (4th ed.). Eastbourne, UK: Aves Press. p. 354. ISBN 978-0-9568611-0-8.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2024). "Parrots, cockatoos". IOC World Bird List Version 14.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
- Juniper, T., & M. Parr (1998). A Guide to the Parrots of the World. Pica Press, East Sussex. ISBN 1-873403-40-2