Zanda (bird)
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| Yellow-tailed black cockatoo, Zanda funerea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Cacatuidae |
| Subfamily: | Calyptorhynchinae |
| Genus: | Zanda Mathews, 1913 |
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The genus Zanda has three species of cockatoos. They are all mostly black in colour, and the taxa may be differentiated partly by size and partly by small areas of red, grey, and yellow plumage, especially in the tail feathers.
| Subgenus | Image | Scientific name | Common name | Subspecies | Distribution |
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| Zanda - black-and-yellow/white cockatoos | |
Zanda funerea | Yellow-tailed black cockatoo |
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south-east of Australia |
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Zanda latirostris | Carnaby's black cockatoo | southwest Australia | ||
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Zanda baudinii | Baudin's black cockatoo | southwest Australia |
References
- ^ Higgins, p. 76.
Further reading
Wikispecies has information related to Zanda (bird).
- Astuti, Dwi (2004?). "A phylogeny of cockatoos (Aves: Psittaciformes) inferred from DNA sequences of the seventh intron of nuclear β-fibrinogen gene". Doctoral work, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan.
- Brown, D.M.; Toft, C.A. (1999). "Molecular systematics and biogeography of the cockatoos (Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae)". Auk. 116 (1): 141–157. doi:10.2307/4089461. JSTOR 4089461.
- Higgins, P.J. (1999). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds. Volume 4: Parrots to Dollarbird. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-553071-1.