Purple-capped fruit dove

Purple-capped fruit dove
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species:
P. ponapensis
Binomial name
Ptilinopus ponapensis
Finsch, 1878

The purple-capped fruit dove or Pohnpei fruit dove (Ptilinopus ponapensis), is a species of bird in the family Columbidae found on Chuuk and Pohnpei in the Caroline Islands. It was formerly considered as a subspecies of the crimson-crowned fruit dove.[2] Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

References

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  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Ptilinopus ponapensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22728265A94976891. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728265A94976891.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ^ "IOC World Bird List 6.3". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi:10.14344/ioc.ml.6.3.
  • Cibois, A., J.-C. Thibault, C. Bonillo, C.E. Filardi, D. Watling, and E. Pasquet. 2014. Phylogeny and biogeography of the fruit doves (Aves: Columbidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 70: 442–453.