[5] The International Ornithological Committee and the Clements taxonomy treat the Socorro parakeet as a full, monotypic, species.

[5][6] BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) considers it to be a subspecies of the green parakeet (P.

Its iris is orange-red surrounded by bare purplish brown skin, its bill horn colored, and its legs brownish.

It inhabits forests dominated by Bumelia socorrensis, Ilex socorroensis, and Guettarda insularis, and is usually found at elevations above 500 m (1,600 ft).

As of early 2023, xeno-canto had only three recordings of Socorro parakeet vocalizations; the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library had many.