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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.[2]

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.[3] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.[4] 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.[4] 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.[5] The specific name viridis is the Latin word for "green".[6] This fruit dove is now placed in the genus Ptilinopus that was introduced in 1825 by the English naturalist William John Swainson.[7][8]

Six subspecies are recognised:[8]

Description

The claret-breasted fruit dove is 20–21 cm (7.9–8.3 in) 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.[9]

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Ptilinopus viridis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22691519A93315150. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22691519A93315150.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ Prin J. & G. (1997) Encyclopédie des Colombidés. Editions Prin, Ingré, 551 p.
  3. ^ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés (in French and Latin). Vol. 1. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. pp. 152–153, Plate 15 fig 2. The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen.
  4. ^ a b Allen, J.A. (1910). "Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 28: 317–335. hdl:2246/678.
  5. ^ Linnaeus, Carl (1766). Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis (in Latin). Vol. 1, Part 1 (12th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 283.
  6. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 403. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  7. ^ Swainson, William John (1825). "On the characters and natural affinities of several new birds from Australasia; including some observations on the Columbidae". Zoological Journal. 1: 463–484 [473–474].
  8. ^ a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  9. ^ Baptista, L.F.; Trail, P.W.; Horblit, H.M.; Garcia, E.F.J. (2020). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Claret-breasted Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus viridis)". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. doi:10.2173/bow.cbfdov1.01. S2CID 240714615. Retrieved 14 March 2020.

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Claret-breasted fruit dove: Brief Summary

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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.

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