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===Genera and species<!-- Parrot links to this heading -->=== [[File:Probosciger aterrimus-20030511.jpg|right|thumb|The [[palm cockatoo]] has a strong bill and red cheeks. At {{convert|55|–|60|cm|abbr=on}} long and weighing {{convert|910|–|1200|g|lb|abbr=on}}, it is the largest cockatoo.<ref name="Forshaw (2006). plate 1.">{{harvnb|Forshaw|2006|p= plate 1}}</ref>|alt=Closeup of head of black-plumaged cockatoo with bare red skin on its face. It has a large beak, which is open with its tongue visible.]] [[File:Calyptorhynchus latirostris -Taronga Zoo (female)-8a.jpg|right|thumb|[[Carnaby's black cockatoo]] with a zoo keeper at [[Taronga Zoo Sydney]], Australia|alt=A mainly black cockatoo perched on a left hand on a sunny day. The cockatoo has a ring on its right leg. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is in the distance]] [[File:Cacatua leadbeateri -flying -Australia Zoo-8-2cr.jpg|right|thumb|[[Pink cockatoo]] flying at [[Taronga Zoo Sydney]].|alt=A pink and white coloured cockatoo with a raised crest flying against a background of blue sky]] There are about 44 different birds in the cockatoo family Cacatuidae including recognized subspecies. The current subdivision of this family is as follows:<small>{{refn|Parentheses around authority name indicate originally in a different genus.|group=Note}}</small> Subfamily Nymphicinae * Genus ''Nymphicus'' **[[Cockatiel]], ''Nymphicus hollandicus'' <small>([[Robert Kerr (writer)|Kerr]], 1792)</small> Subfamily Calyptorhynchinae: Black cockatoos * Genus ''[[Calyptorhynchus]]'' – black-and-red cockatoos **[[Red-tailed black cockatoo]], ''Calyptorhynchus banksii'' <small>([[John Latham (ornithologist)|Latham]], 1790)</small> (5 subspecies) **[[Glossy black cockatoo]], ''Calyptorhynchus lathami'' <small>([[Coenraad Jacob Temminck|Temminck]], 1807)</small> (3 subspecies) * Genus ''[[Zanda (bird)|Zanda]]'' – black-and-yellow/white cockatoos **[[Yellow-tailed black cockatoo]], ''Zanda funerea'' <small>([[George Shaw (biologist)|Shaw]], 1794)</small> (2–3 subspecies) **[[Carnaby's black cockatoo]], ''Zanda latirostris'' <small>(Carnaby, 1948)</small> **[[Baudin's black cockatoo]], ''Zanda baudinii'' <small>([[Edward Lear|Lear]], 1832)</small> Subfamily [[Cacatuinae]] *Tribe Microglossini: One genus with one species, the black [[palm cockatoo]]. ** Genus ''[[Palm cockatoo|Probosciger]]'' ***Palm cockatoo, ''Probosciger aterrimus''<small> ([[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|Gmelin]], 1788)</small> (4 subspecies) *Tribe [[Cacatuini]]: Four genera of white, pink and grey species. ** Genus ''[[Gang-gang cockatoo|Callocephalon]]'' ***[[Gang-gang cockatoo]], ''Callocephalon fimbriatum'' <small>([[James Grant (navigator)|Grant]], 1803)</small> ** Genus ''[[Galah|Eolophus]]'' ***[[Galah]], ''Eolophus roseicapilla'' <small>([[Louis Pierre Vieillot|Vieillot]], 1817)</small> (3 subspecies) ** Genus ''[[Cacatua]]'' (13 species) *** Subgenus ''[[Cacatua (subgenus)|Cacatua]]'' – true white cockatoos ****[[Yellow-crested cockatoo]] or lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo, ''Cacatua sulphurea'' <small>([[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|Gmelin]], 1788)</small> (5 subspecies) ****[[Citron-crested cockatoo]], ''Cacatua citrinocristata'' <small>([[Louis Fraser|Fraser]], 1844)</small> ****[[Sulphur-crested cockatoo]], ''Cacatua galerita'' <small>([[John Latham (ornithologist)|Latham]], 1790)</small> (4 subspecies) ****[[Blue-eyed cockatoo]], ''Cacatua ophthalmica'' <small>[[Philip Sclater|Sclater]], 1864</small> ****[[White cockatoo]] or umbrella cockatoo, ''Cacatua alba'' <small>([[Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller|Müller]], 1776)</small> ****[[Salmon-crested cockatoo]] or Moluccan cockatoo, ''Cacatua moluccensis'' <small>([[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|Gmelin]], 1788)</small> *** Subgenus ''[[Licmetis]]'' – corellas ****[[Long-billed corella]], ''Cacatua tenuirostris'' <small>([[Heinrich Kuhl|Kuhl]], 1820)</small> ****[[Western corella]], ''Cacatua pastinator'' <small>([[John Gould|Gould]], 1841)</small> (2 subspecies) ****[[Little corella]] (also bare-eyed cockatoo), ''Cacatua sanguinea'' <small>[[John Gould|Gould]], 1843</small> (4 subspecies) ****[[Tanimbar corella]] or Goffin's cockatoo, ''Cacatua goffiniana'' <small>Roselaar and Michels, 2004</small><ref name="Roselaar">{{Cite journal|vauthors=Roselaar CS, Michels JP|year=2004|title=Systematic notes on Asian birds. 48. Nomenclatural chaos untangled, resulting in the naming of the formally undescribed ''Cacatua'' species from the Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia (Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae)|journal=Zoologische Verhandelingen|volume=350|pages=183–96|url=http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/43942|access-date=5 December 2009|archive-date=18 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090818123322/http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/43942|url-status=live}}</ref> ****[[Solomons cockatoo]] or Ducorps's cockatoo, ''Cacatua ducorpsii'' <small>[[Jacques Pucheran|Pucheran]], 1853</small> ****[[Red-vented cockatoo]] or Philippine cockatoo, ''Cacatua haematuropygia'' <small>([[Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller|Müller]], 1776)</small> ***Subgenus ''[[Lophochroa]]'' – pink cockatoos ****[[Pink cockatoo]] or Major Mitchell's/Leadbeater's cockatoo, ''Cacatua leadbeateri'' <small>([[Nicholas Aylward Vigors|Vigors]], 1831)</small> (2 subspecies)
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