The genus was introduced by French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1854. The type species was subsequent designated as the monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) by English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855.
This passage describes the origin of a taxonomic classification for a bird species. The genus was first described by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, and the specific type species was later identified as the monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) by George Robert Gray.