Psittrichasiidae
Psittrichasiidae is a family of birds belonging to the superfamily of the true parrots. It is a very small family, the smallest of the three families of the true parrots. It is divided into two subfamilies: Psittrichasinae and Coracopsinae, that contain a single genus each. The first contains a single species, native to New Guinea, and the second contains two living species distributed throughout Madagascar and other islands of the Indian Ocean.Genera
The family Psittrichasiidae contains two subfamilies:
Subfamily Psittrichasinae:
Subfamily Coracopsinae
Recent studies indicate that the extinct Mascarene parrot was closely related to the members of Coracopsis.
