 In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Moluccan king parrot in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen collected on the island of Ambon in Indonesia.He used the French name "La perruche rouge d'Amboine" and the Latin name "Psittaca amboinensis coccinea".Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.