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| name=Violet macaw |
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| classification_status=disputed |
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| image = Ara guadeloupensis Keulemans.jpg |
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| image_width = 250px |
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| image_caption = Restoration by [[Keulemans]] |
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| regnum = [[Animal]]ia |
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| phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] |
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| classis = [[bird|Aves]] |
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| ordo = [[Psittaciformes]] |
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| familia = [[Psittacidae]] |
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| subfamilia = [[Psittacinae]] |
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| tribus = [[Neotropical parrots|Arini]] |
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| genus = ''[[Anodorhynchus]]'' |
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| species = '''''A. purpurascens''''' |
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| binomial = ''Anodorhynchus purpurascens'' |
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| binomial_authority = [[Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild|Rothschild]], 1907 |
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| range_map = Département 971 in France (-mini map) (zoom).svg |
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| range_map_width = 250px |
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| range_map_caption = Location of Guadeloupe |
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The '''violet macaw''' (''Anodorhynchus purpurascens'') is an [[hypothetical extinct species]] of [[parrot]]. Its native name was '''oné couli'''<ref name = Rothschild1907>{{cite book |title = Extinct Birds |first = Walter |last = Rothschild | year = 1907| publisher = Hutchison, London}}</ref>. It was described by [[Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild|Rothschild]] and featured in his book, ''[[Extinct Birds (Rothschild book)|Extinct Birds]]'' published in 1907<ref name = Rothschild1907/>. Rothschild named the species because uniform bluish coloured macaws were said to have inhabited the island of [[Guadeloupe]]<ref name = Rothschild1907/>, but the recent tracing of the sources used by Rothschild has evidenced the author based on a poor depiction of the [[Guadeloupe Amazon]] by [[Raymond Breton]], a French missionary present in Guadeloupe during the first years of the French colonization<ref name = Lenoble2015>{{cite journal|last= Lenoble|first= A.|year= 2015|title= The Violet Macaw (Anodorhynchus purpurascens Rothschild, 1905) did not exist|journal= Journal of Caribbean Ornithology|volume= 28|pages= 12-21|url = http://www.birdscaribbean.org/jco/index.php/jco/article/view/103|}}</ref>. Only the genus ''Ara'' is thus known to have colonised the West Indies.<ref name="Extinct Birds">{{cite book |
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| last1 = Hume |
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| first1 = J. P. |
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| first2 = M. |
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| last2 = Walters |
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|year= 2012 |
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|title= Extinct Birds |
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|publisher= A & C Black |
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|isbn=140815725X}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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{{Reflist}} |
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{{Macaws}} |
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[[Category:Anodorhynchus]] |
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[[Category:Extinct birds of the Caribbean]] |
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[[Category:Macaws]] |
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[[Category:Controversial bird taxa]] |
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[[Category:Animals described in 1907]] |
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{{parrot-stub}} |
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