Yellow-tailed parrot

The yellow-tailed parrot (Pionites leucogaster xanthurus or Pionites xanthurus), also known as the central white-bellied parrot, is a bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is endemic to Brazil.^[2] The South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society, the International Ornithological Committee, and the Clements taxonomy treat the yellow-tailed parrot as a subspecies of the white-bellied parrot (P. leucogaster).^[3][2][4] BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) considers it a full species.^[5] It is rare in captivity in comparison to other taxa of the genus.^[1]

Yellow-tailed parrot
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification (disputed)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Psittaciformes
Family:	Psittacidae
Genus:	Pionites
Species:	P. leucogaster
Subspecies:	P. l. xanthurus
Trinomial name
Pionites leucogaster xanthurus
Synonyms
P. leucogaster xanthurus P. xanthurus (Todd, 1925)