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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 smallest is the common ground dove (Columbina passerina) of the genus Columbina, which is the same size as a house sparrow, weighing as little as 22 g (0.049 lb). [17] The dwarf fruit dove, which may measure as little as 13 cm (5.1 in), has a marginally smaller total length than any other species from this family. [17]
The genus Ptilinopus was introduced in 1825 by the English naturalist William Swainson with the rose-crowned fruit dove (Ptilinopus regina) as the type species. [1] [2] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek words πτίλον ptilon meaning "down feather" with πούς pous meaning "foot".
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]
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 ...
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?)
This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflect this taxonomy, as do the species counts found in each family ...
The National List of Threatened Terrestrial Fauna of the Philippines, also known as the Red List, is a list of endangered species endemic to the Philippines and is maintained by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) through its Biodiversity Management Bureau and the Philippine Red List Committee.