Touit

This article is about the genus of birds. For the lens series, see Carl Zeiss Touit.

Touit is a genus of Neotropical parrots in the family Psittacidae.

Touit
Brown-backed parrotlet, Touit melanonotus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Psittaciformes
Family:	Psittacidae
Subfamily:	Arinae
Genus:	Touit G.R. Gray, 1855
Type species
Psittacus huetii[1] Temminck, 1830
Species
see text

The genus was introduced by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the scarlet-shouldered parrotlet (Touit huetii) as the type species.^[2] The genus name is derived from the extinct Tupi language that was spoken by native people in Brazil: Tuí eté means "really little parrot".^[3] In 1648 the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave used Tuiete for a small parrot in his Historia Naturalis Brasiliae.^[4]

The genus contains the following eight species:^[5]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Touit batavicus	Lilac-tailed parrotlet	Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
	Touit huetii	Scarlet-shouldered parrotlet	Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela
	Touit costaricensis	Red-fronted parrotlet	Central America in Costa Rica and Panama
	Touit dilectissimus	Blue-fronted parrotlet or red-winged parrotlet	coastal Andes to Peru
	Touit purpuratus	Sapphire-rumped parrotlet	Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
	Touit melanonotus	Brown-backed parrotlet	south-eastern Brazil from Bahia to southern São Paulo
	Touit surdus	Golden-tailed parrotlet	eastern Brazil.
	Touit stictopterus	Spot-winged parrotlet	Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru