Raiatea fruit-dove
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| Illustration of a Raiatea fruit-dove by Joseph Wolf | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Genus: | Ptilinopus |
| Species: | P. chrysogaster
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| Binomial name | |
| Ptilinopus chrysogaster Gray, GR, 1854
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The Raiatea fruit-dove (Ptilinopus chrysogaster) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to the Society Islands in French Polynesia. Although first named to science in 1853, this fruit-dove was evidently discovered 30 years earlier, by René Primevère Lesson (1794–1849), while serving as naturalist aboard La Coquille.[2] It was formerly considered a subspecies of the grey-green fruit dove but was split as a distinct species by the IOC in 2021.[3] Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Distribution and population[]
The Raiatea fruit-dove is endemic to the French Polynesian islands Huahine, Raiatea, Tahaa, Bora Bora, and, at least formerly, Maupiti. There is an estimated population of p 1000 to 2500 mature individual birds. Better population estimates after 2001 are unknown.[1]
Threats[]
There is an ongoing population decline due to habitat destruction; the introduction of non-native plants, predation by invasive species such as the swamp harrier (Circus approximans) and feral cats, Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans), black rats (R. rattus) have a negative impact on the quality of the species habitat.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c BirdLife International (2016). "Ptilinopus purpuratus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T60759996A95162340. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T60759996A95162340.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Lee, Michael; Cibois, Alice (20 September 2019). "The earliest record of Raiatea or Leeward Society Islands Fruit Dove Ptilinopus chrysogaster". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 139 (3): 260-265. doi:10.25226/bboc.v139i3.2019.a7. S2CID 202727938.
- ^ "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2021-06-18.
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- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Ptilinopus
- Birds of the Society Islands
- Endemic birds of French Polynesia
- Endangered biota of Oceania
- Birds described in 1854
- Taxa named by George Robert Gray
- Columbiformes stubs