Claret-breasted fruit dove explained
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 John 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 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]
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Notes and References
- Prin J. & G. (1997) Encyclopédie des Colombidés. Editions Prin, Ingré, 551 p.
- Book: Brisson, Mathurin Jacques . Mathurin Jacques Brisson . 1760 . Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés . 1 . French, Latin . Paris . Jean-Baptiste Bauche . 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.
- Allen . J.A. . Joel Asaph Allen . 1910 . Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 28 . 317–335 . 2246/678 .
- Book: Linnaeus, Carl . Carl Linnaeus . 1766 . Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis . 12th . 1, Part 1 . Laurentii Salvii . Holmiae (Stockholm) . Latin . 283 .
- Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . limited . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 403 .
- Swainson . William John . William John Swainson . 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] .
- Web site: Gill . Frank . Frank Gill (ornithologist) . Donsker . David . Rasmussen . Pamela . Pamela Rasmussen . 2020 . Pigeons . IOC World Bird List Version 10.1 . International Ornithologists' Union . 14 March 2020 .
- Baptista . L.F. . Trail . P.W. . Horblit . H.M. . Garcia . E.F.J. . 2020 . Claret-breasted Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus viridis) . del Hoyo . J. . Elliott . A. . Sargatal . J. . Christie . D.A. . de Juana . E. . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive . Lynx Edicions . 10.2173/bow.cbfdov1.01 . 240714615 . 14 March 2020 . subscription .
