Table 2.
Selected Psittaciformes groups popular in the illegal bird trade and the percentage of species with available reference sequences on GenBank at time of publication [22], [27], [28], [29]. This table includes only selected extant species and does not include all genera and species possible within a given group. Cytb: cytochrome b gene; 12S: mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA gene; COI indicates the commonly used barcoding gene cytochrome oxidase 1 [30].
| Subfamily | General groups | Number of genera | Number of species | % of species with reference sequences (in GenBank) |
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| Cytb | 12S | COI | ||||
| Cacatuinae | Cockatoos | 3 | 18 | 61 | 17 | 17 |
| Loriinae | Lories and lorikeets | 6 | 40 | 33 | 3 | 15 |
| Psittacinae | Neotropical parrots | 10 | 89 | 62 | 56 | 55 |
| Australian parrots | 5 | 16 | 25 | 25 | 25 | |
| South-east Asian parrots | 5 | 8 | 50 | 38 | 38 | |
| Afrotropical parrots | 2 | 10 | 60 | 20 | 30 | |