Cacatua

Although the name Cacatua was used in 1760 by French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson, he did not include it in his table of genera and Brisson is not recognised as the authority by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).^[2][3] The genus Kakatoe was introduced by Georges Cuvier in 1801 but this name has been suppressed by the ICZN and instead Louis Pierre Vieillot is recognised as introducing the genus Cacatua in 1817.^[3][4][5] The type species was designated as the white cockatoo by Tommaso Salvadori in 1891.^[6][7] The name Cacatua is from the Malay language words Kakatuá and Kakak-tuá for the cockatoos.^[8]

The genus contains 13 species.^[9]

Subgenus	Image	Common name	Scientific name	Distribution
Cacatua - true white cockatoos		Yellow-crested (or lesser sulphur-crested) cockatoo,	Cacatua sulphurea	East Timor and Indonesia's islands of Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas
		Citron-crested cockatoo	Cacatua citrinocristata	Sumba in the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia
		Sulphur-crested cockatoo	Cacatua galerita	Australia, and New Guinea and some of the islands of Indonesia
		Blue-eyed cockatoo	Cacatua ophthalmica	New Britain in Papua New Guinea
		White (or umbrella) cockatoo	Cacatua alba	Halmahera, Bacan, Ternate, Tidore, Kasiruta and Mandioli (Bacan group) in North Maluku, Indonesia
		Salmon-crested (or Moluccan) cockatoo	Cacatua moluccensis	Seram archipelago in eastern Indonesia
Licmetis - corellas		Long-billed corella	Cacatua tenuirostris	Australia
		Western corella	Cacatua pastinator	South-western Australia
		Little corella	Cacatua sanguinea	Australia and southern New Guinea
		Tanimbar corella (or Goffin's cockatoo)	Cacatua goffiniana	Yamdena, Larat and Selaru, all islands in the Tanimbar Islands archipelago in Indonesia
		Solomons corella (or Ducorps's cockatoo)	Cacatua ducorpsii	Solomon Islands archipelago
		Red-vented (or Philippine) cockatoo	Cacatua haematuropygia	Philippines
Lophochroa - pink cockatoos		Pink (or Major Mitchell's/Leadbeater's) cockatoo	Cacatua leadbeateri	Interior and western Australia

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