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The Negros fruit dove is a small (16.5cm height), short-tailed fruit dove. It was known only by a single female specimen. It was known only by a single female specimen. The female is a vivid dark green overall with an ash-grey forehead above an extensive ring of bare yellow skin that surrounds the eye. [ 11 ]
The fruit doves, also known as fruit pigeons, are a genus ... Negros fruit dove, Ptilinopus arcanus Ripley & Rabor, 1955 – possibly extinct (late 20th century?)
In some areas, a lack of knowledge means the true status of a species is unknown; the Negros fruit dove has not been seen since 1953, [73] and may or may not be extinct, and the Polynesian ground dove is classified as critically endangered, as whether it survives or not on remote islands in the far west of the Pacific Ocean is unknown. [74]
Negros fruit dove: Ptilinopus arcanus: Negros Island, Philippines Only known from the type specimen, a female, collected in 1953. Its mate was also shot but the body fell in the underbrush and could not be retrieved. Likely disappeared due to hunting and large escale deforestation of the island. [92]
A subspecies of the lilac-crowned fruit dove known only from the description of a now-lost specimen. The prehistorically extinct population on Mangaia likely belongs to another distinct subspecies also. Negros spotted imperial pigeon, Ducula carola nigrorum (Negros and probably Siquijor, late 20th century?)
Banded fruit dove: Ptilinopus cinctus (Temminck, 1809) AU: Bali and Lesser Sundas: 242: Black-banded fruit dove: Ptilinopus alligator Collett, 1898: AU: northern Australia 243: Red-naped fruit dove: Ptilinopus dohertyi Rothschild, 1896: OR: Sumba (Indonesia) 244: Pink-headed fruit dove: Ptilinopus porphyreus (Temminck, 1822) OR: Sumatra and ...
Red collared-dove, Streptopelia tranquebarica; Spotted dove, Spilopelia chinensis; Philippine cuckoo-dove, Macropygia tenuirostris; Asian emerald dove, Chalcophaps indica; Zebra dove, Geopelia striata (I) Nicobar pigeon, Caloenas nicobarica; Mindoro bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba platenae (E) Negros bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba keayi (E)
Claret-breasted fruit-dove, Ptilinopus viridis; Orange-bellied fruit-dove, Ptilinopus iozonus; Gray-headed fruit-dove, Ptilinopus hyogastrus; Carunculated fruit-dove, Ptilinopus granulifrons; Black-naped fruit-dove, Ptilinopus melanospilus; Dwarf fruit-dove, Ptilinopus nainus; Negros fruit-dove, Ptilinopus arcanus; Knob-billed fruit-dove ...