Claret-breasted fruit dove
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The claret-breasted fruit dove (Ptilinopus viridis) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in the Moluccas, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands archipelago. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.[1]
Taxonomy
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the claret-breasted fruit dove in his six volume Ornithologie based on a specimen collected on Ambon Island, one of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. He used the French name La tourterelle verte d'Amboine and the Latin Turtur viridis amboinensis.[2] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.[3] When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson.[3] One of these was the claret-breasted fruit dove which he placed with all the other pigeons in the genus Columba. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Columba viridis and cited Brisson's work.[4] The specific name viridis is the Latin word for "green".[5] This fruit dove is now placed in the genus Ptilinopus that was introduced in 1825 by the English naturalist William Swainson.[6][7]
Six subspecies are recognised:[7]
- P. v. viridis (Linnaeus, 1766) – south Maluku Islands
- P. v. pectoralis (Wagler, 1829) – Raja Ampat Islands, Bird's Head Peninsula (northwest New Guinea)
- P. v. geelvinkianus Schlegel, 1871 – Cenderawasih Bay Islands
- P. v. salvadorii Rothschild, 1892 – north New Guinea, Yapen Island (off northwest New Guinea)
- P. v. vicinus Hartert, 1895 – Trobriand Islands, D'Entrecasteaux Islands (off east New Guinea)
- P. v. lewisii Ramsay, EP, 1882 – Manus Island, Lihir Island and Nissan Island to west Solomon Islands
Description
The claret-breasted fruit dove is Template:Cvt in length. The plumage is mainly green apart from a well-defined patch of dark red-brown feathers on the throat and upper breast. The face and forecrown are bluish grey and shoulder has a bluish grey patch.[8]
References
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- ↑ Prin J. & G. (1997) Encyclopédie des Colombidés. Editions Prin, Ingré, 551 p.
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