Taxonomic Merge 10223 (Committed on 2015-02-08)

Clements and BirdLife International lists both agree on moving this species from Aratinga to Psittacara

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/factsheet/22685672#http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.html#

The eBird download of Clements notes "A series of recent phylogenetic surveys of parrots document that the large genus Aratinga is not monophyletic; see Remsen et al. (2013) for a review. In accord with SACC Proposal 578 and with NACC (Chesser et al. 2014), the species of Aratinga now are distributed across four genera. As a result, the scientific name for Red-masked Parakeet changes from Aratinga erythrogenys to Psittacara erythrogenys. "

The eBird/Clements checklist of birds... (Citation)
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Added by danielgeorge on February 8, 2015 03:39 AM | Committed by danielgeorge on February 8, 2015
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