Guzmán, Adam D. Urantówka, and Pawel Mackiewicz proposed a new species from the Yucatán Peninsula area in Mexico called the blue-winged amazon (Amazona gomezgarzai). Subsequent studies question its validity, though, indicating that these organisms possibly had an artificial hybrid origin.

The yellow-faced parrot (Alipiopsitta xanthops) was traditionally placed within this genus, but recent research has shown that it is more closely related to