Amazona versicolor

(Statius Muller, 1776) · species

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Animalia/Chordata/Aves/Psittaciformes/Psittacidae/Amazona

At a glance

Occurrence records1 169

Data sources10

Biological traits24

DNA specimens1

eDNA detections1

Sources10 archives

Databases and archives Amazona versicolor's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation12 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 169 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI1 eDNA detections↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics1 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗

NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗

WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗

IOC World Bird ListIOCbird checklist↗

On this page6 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements4 literature sources24 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF1 169 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 0 countries1 detections

DNA & barcodingBOLD1 specimens

Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI≈589 Mbp

01Narrative

The Saint Lucia amazon (Amazona versicolor) also known as the Saint Lucia parrot is a species of parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is endemic to Saint Lucia and is the country's national bird. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist mountain forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesEltonTraitsAnAgeAmnioteDBAVONET

Size & morphology12

Beak depth32.4 mm

Beak length (culmen)38.8 mm

Beak length (nares)30.7 mm

Beak width18.6 mm

Body mass676 g

⚠ sources differ — AnAge: 676 g · AmnioteDB: 714 g · AVONET: 676 g · EltonTraits: 676 g

Hand-wing index31.4

Kipp's distance79.8 mm

SVL43 cm

Secondary length174 mm

Tail length167 mm

Tarsus length26.3 mm

Wing length257 mm

Life cycle & reproduction1

Litter size2

Diet & foraging7

Canopy30 %

Fruit50 %

Midhigh50 %

Seed50 %

Trophic levelherbivore

Trophic nicheOmnivore

Understory20 %

Habitat & environment4

HabitatForest

Migration1.0

Primary lifestyleInsessorial

Range size142 km²

05DNA & barcoding1 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Amazona versicolor has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens1

Marker genes1

eDNA detections1

Marker genes sequenced

★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.

★COI-3P

animal barcode

06Genome at a glanceGoaT · NCBI

The complete instruction manual Amazona versicolor carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.

Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is

Genome size≈588 546 825 bp assembly estimate

Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).

BACTERIUM Carsonella ruddii0.00016 Gb

FUNGUS0.04 Gb

INSECT0.25 Gb

THIS GENOME Amazona versicolor0.59 Gb

HUMAN3.2 Gb

WHEAT17 Gb

FERN Tmesipteris160.45 Gb

Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers

Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.

Assembly levelScaffold

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type1 169 records

Wild obs. + sensor1 146

Museum / vouchered23

Origin

Native5

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO440 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy0% within 1 km

>10 km 43

43 georeferenced · 1 103 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor1 146

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy15% within 1 km

≤1 km 3>10 km 17

20 georeferenced · 3 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence23

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions4 of 4 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Cambridge, US	14
New Haven, US	4
Ann Arbor, US	4
Vancouver, CA	1

4 institutions · 23 of 23 vouchered records shown

09Environmental DNA1 detections

Where the DNA of Amazona versicolor was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found1

Studies independent surveys1

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 1 detections have coordinates

Open the map0 countries0

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.

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Amazona versicolor

At a glance

Sources10 archives

Size & morphology12

Life cycle & reproduction1

Diet & foraging7

Habitat & environment4

At a glance

Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is

Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers

Record type1 169 records

Origin

Range

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions4 of 4 geolocated

Signal

Where its DNA was found

How strong is each trace?

Record type1 169 records