Spice imperial pigeon explained

The spice imperial pigeon (Ducula myristicivora) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to Indonesia, where it occurs in the eastern Moluccas and the Raja Ampat Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. It eats, and is an important disperser of seeds for, fleshy fruits.[1] [2]

Taxonomy

The spice imperial pigeon was formally described in 1786 by the Austrian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli and given the binomial name Columba myristicivora.[3] The specific epithet myristicivora combines the botanical genus name Myristica that contains the nutmeg (from the Ancient Greek muristikos meaning "fragrant"), with the Latin -vorus meaning "eating".[4] The type locality is New Guinea.[5] This species is now placed in the genus Ducula that was introduced by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1836.[6] [7]

The Geelvink imperial pigeon (D. geelvinkiana) of the Schouten (or Geelvink) Islands was formerly considered conspecific, but was recognized as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Schrader . Julian . 2020-12-03 . Plants on small islands: using taxonomic and functional diversity to unravel community assembly processes and the small-island effect . Frontiers of Biogeography . 12 . 4 . 10.21425/f5fbg47361 . 1948-6596. free .
  2. Schrader . Julian . Moeljono . Soetjipto . Keppel . Gunnar . Kreft . Holger . 2019-05-13 . Plants on small islands revisited: the effects of spatial scale and habitat quality on the species–area relationship . Ecography . 42 . 8 . 1405–1414 . 10.1111/ecog.04512 . 0906-7590. free . 2019Ecogr..42.1405S .
  3. Book: Scopoli, Giovanni Antonio . Giovanni Antonio Scopoli . 1786 . Deliciae florae faunae insubricae, seu Novae, aut minus cognitae species plantarum et animalium quas in Insubica austriaca tam spontaneas, quam exoticas vidit . Latin . 2 . Ticini [Pavia] . Typographia Reg. & Imp. Monasterii S. Salvatoris . 94 .
  4. Book: Jobling, James A. . 2010. The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . limited . Christopher Helm . London . 978-1-4081-2501-4 . 264 .
  5. Book: Peters . James Lee . James L. Peters . 1937 . Check-List of Birds of the World . 3 . Harvard University Press . Cambridge, Massachusetts . 45 .
  6. Hodgson . Brian Houghton . Brian Houghton Hodgson . 1836 . Notices of the ornithology of Nepal . Asiatic Researches, or, Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal . 19 . 143–192 [160] .
  7. 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 . 13 March 2020 .
  8. Web site: Species Updates – IOC World Bird List. 2021-06-13. en-US.

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