Editing Yellow-shouldered amazon (section)

== Taxonomy ==
The yellow-shouldered amazon was described and illustrated in 1738 by the English naturalist [[Eleazar Albin]] in his ''A Natural History of Birds'' based on live specimen. Albin believed that the parrot had come from Barbados and used the English name, the "Barbadoes parrot".<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Albin | first1=Eleazar | author1-link=Eleazar Albin | last2=Derham | first2=William | author2-link=William Derham | year=1738 | title=A Natural History of Birds : Illustrated with a Hundred and One Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from the Life | volume=3 | page=11, Plate 11 | location=London | publisher=Printed for the author and sold by William Innys | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41130899 }}</ref> Using Albin's account, both [[Mathurin Jacques Brisson]] in 1760 and [[John Latham (ornithologist)|John Latham]] in 1781 included a description of the parrot in their books on birds.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Brisson | first=Mathurin Jacques | author-link=Mathurin Jacques Brisson | year=1760 | title=Ornithologie, ou, Méthode Contenant la Division des Oiseaux en Ordres, Sections, Genres, Especes & leurs Variétés | volume=4 | language=French, Latin | pages=236–237 | location=Paris | publisher=Jean-Baptiste Bauche | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36195355 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last=Latham | first=John | year=1781 | author-link=John Latham (ornithologist) | title=A General Synopsis of Birds | volume=1, Part 1 | page=284, No. 90 | location=London | publisher= Printed for Benj. White | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33727802 }}</ref> When in 1788 the German naturalist [[Johann Friedrich Gmelin]] revised and expanded [[Carl Linnaeus]]'s ''[[Systema Naturae]]'', he included the yellow-shouldered amazon, coined the [[binomial name]] ''Psittacus barbadensis'' and cited Latham's work.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Gmelin | first=Johann Friedrich | author-link=Johann Friedrich Gmelin| year=1788 | title=Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | edition=13th | volume=1, Part 1 | language=Latin | location=Lipsiae [Leipzig] | publisher=Georg. Emanuel. Beer | page=339 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2896939 }}</ref> Gmelin specified the [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] as Barbados but this parrot species is not found on the island and Venezuela is the type locality.<ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1937 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=3 | publisher=Harvard University Press | location=Cambridge, Massachusetts  | page=220 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14477935 }}</ref> The yellow-shouldered amazon is now placed with around thirty other species in the genus ''[[Amazona]]'' that was introduced by the French naturalist [[René Lesson]] in 1830.<ref>{{cite book | last=Lesson | first=René | author-link=René Lesson | year=1831 | title=Traité d'Ornithologie, ou Tableau Méthodique | volume=1 | language=fr | place=Paris | publisher=F.G. Levrault | page=189 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35997173 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=January 2022 | title=Parrots, cockatoos | work=IOC World Bird List Version 12.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/parrots/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=26 March 2022 }}</ref> The genus name is a Latinized version of the name ''Amazone'' given to these parrot in the 18th century by the [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon|Comte de Buffon]], who believed they were native to Amazonian jungles. The specific ''barbadensis'' denotes Barbados.<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages=[https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n44/mode/1up 44], [https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n67/mode/1up 67]}}</ref> The species is [[monotypic]]: no [[subspecies]] are recognised.<ref name=ioc/>