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The orange-fronted parakeet (Cyanoramphus malherbi) is a colour morph of the yellow-crowned parakeet (C. auriceps)

  • Publication Type

    Journal Article

  • Publication Year

    1986

  • Author(s)

    R.H. Taylor; E.G. Heatherbell; E.M. Heatherbell

  • Journal Name

    Notornis

  • Volume, Issue

    33, 1

  • Pagination

    17-22

  • Article Type

    Paper

  • DOI

    https://doi.org/10.63172/452073bnoztv

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The orange-fronted parakeet (Cyanoramphus malherbi) is a colour morph of the yellow-crowned parakeet (C. auriceps)

Notornis, 33 (1), 17-22

R.H. Taylor; E.G. Heatherbell; E.M. Heatherbell (1986)

Article Type: Paper

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Cyanoramphus malherbi (Souance 1857) is relegated to synonymy with C. auriceps (Kuhl 1820) after cross-breeding in captivity showed that both are colour morphs of one species. The resulting parent-offspring data can be most simply explained by the Mendelian theory of dominant/recessive inheritance at a single locus, the factor for yellow-crowned being dominant.