| Cacatua | |
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| Cacatua galerita | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Cacatuidae |
| Subfamily: | Cacatuinae |
| Genus: | Cacatua Vieillot, 1817 |
| Type species | |
| Cacatua cristata[1] =Psittacus albus Vieillot, 1817 | |
| Species | |
Cacatua is agenus ofcockatoos found from thePhilippines,Indonesia,Papua New Guinea, andSolomon Islands toAustralia. They have a primarily whiteplumage (in some species tinged pinkish or yellow), an expressive crest, and a black (subgenusCacatua) or pale (subgenusLicmetis) bill. Today, several species from this genus are considered threatened due to a combination ofhabitat loss and capture for the wild-bird trade, with theblue-eyed cockatoo considered vulnerable,Moluccan cockatoo, andumbrella cockatoo consideredendangered, and thered-vented cockatoo andyellow-crested cockatoo consideredcritically endangered.
Although the nameCacatua was used in 1760 by French zoologistMathurin Jacques Brisson, he did not include it in his table of genera and Brisson is not recognised as the authority by theInternational Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).[2][3] The genusKakatoe was introduced byGeorges Cuvier in 1801 but this name has been suppressed by the ICZN and insteadLouis Pierre Vieillot is recognised as introducing the genusCacatua in 1817.[3][4][5] Thetype species was designated as thewhite cockatoo byTommaso Salvadori in 1891.[6][7] The nameCacatua is from theMalay language wordsKakatuá andKakak-tuá for the cockatoos.[8]
The genus contains 13 species.[9]
| Subgenus | Image | Common name | Scientific name | Distribution |
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| Cacatua - true white cockatoos | .jpg) | 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 theLesser Sunda Islands inIndonesia | |
 | 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 | _(8079603537).jpg) | 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 | _(8079601633).jpg) | Pink (or Major Mitchell's/Leadbeater's) cockatoo | Cacatua leadbeateri | Interior and western Australia |
