Amazona violacea is a chordate, or more specifically a bird, in the Psittacidae family.

Amazona violacea is commonly known (its common name) as the Guadeloupe Parrot in English.

Amazona violacea is classified as extinct by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species maintained by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

Species Authority: The species authority, or the name(s) of scientist(s) or person(s) who first described Amazona violacea is Gmelin, 1789 (IUCN Red List).

Country Distribution: Amazona violacea is found in the following countries:

Guadeloupe [RE] (IUCN Red List).

Biome(s)/Ecosystem(s): IUCN lists the following as biomes for Amazona violacea: Terrestrial (IUCN Red List).

Range: Amazona violacea, although not known from any specimens, was described in detail from Guadeloupe (to France) by, amongst others, Du Tertre in 1654 and 1667, Labat in 1742, and Brisson in 1760¹. It was named by Gmelin in 1789¹. It was heavily hunted and noted by Buffon in 1779 to be very rare¹, and presumably became extinct soon after. (IUCN Red List).

CONSERVATION STATUS

Red List Category & Criteria: Amazona violacea is listed as EX ver 3.1 (2001) (IUCN Red List).

Year Assessed: Amazona violacea's status was assessed in 2004 (IUCN Red List).

Assessor: Amazona violacea's Red List status was evaluated by BirdLife International (IUCN Red List).

Red List Evaluator: The Red List Evaluator for Amazona violacea is listed by IUCN as Stattersfield, A. (BirdLife International Red List Authority) & Brooks, T. (Conservation International) (IUCN Red List).

Red List Rational / Justification : Amazona violacea is listed by IUCN for the following: Guadeloupe Parrot Amazona violacea, although not known from any specimens, was described in detail from Guadeloupe (to France) by, amongst others, Du Tertre in 1654 and 1667, Labat in 1742, and Brisson in 1760. It was named by Gmelin in 1789. It was heavily hunted and noted by Buffon in 1779 to be very rare, and presumably became extinct soon after. (IUCN Red List).

Red List History: Amazona violacea was listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 1988 (IUCN Red List).

Data Sources for IUCN data: The following is a list of citations from the IUCN web site for Amazona violacea:

Citations listed by IUCN

Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places:
For References from A–L.
For References from M–Z.

BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.

BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

(IUCN Red List).

Links: IUCN Red List Profile for Amazona violacea (IUCN Red List).

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