Strigops
| Strigops Temporal range: Pleistocene - Recent
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| Kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Strigopidae |
| Genus: | Strigops G.R. Gray, 1845 |
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Strigops is a genus of New Zealand parrots that contains two species, an extant species, the kākāpō (Strigops habroptilus) and the fossil species Strigops insulaborealis from the early Pleistocene of New Zealand.