Spice imperial pigeon

Spice imperial pigeon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ducula
Species:
D. myristicivora
Binomial name
Ducula myristicivora
(Scopoli, 1786)

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.[2][3]

Taxonomy

The spice imperial pigeon was formally described in 1786 by the Austrian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli and given the binomial name Columba myristicivora.[4] 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".[5] The type locality is New Guinea.[6] This species is now placed in the genus Ducula that was introduced by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1836.[7][8]

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.[9]

References

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Ducula myristicivora". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22728096A94970561. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22728096A94970561.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  2. ^ 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). doi:10.21425/f5fbg47361. ISSN 1948-6596.
  3. ^ 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. Bibcode:2019Ecogr..42.1405S. doi:10.1111/ecog.04512. ISSN 0906-7590.
  4. ^ Scopoli, Giovanni Antonio (1786). Deliciae florae faunae insubricae, seu Novae, aut minus cognitae species plantarum et animalium quas in Insubica austriaca tam spontaneas, quam exoticas vidit (in Latin). Vol. 2. Ticini [Pavia]: Typographia Reg. & Imp. Monasterii S. Salvatoris. p. 94.
  5. ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 264. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  6. ^ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1937). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 45.
  7. ^ Hodgson, Brian Houghton (1836). "Notices of the ornithology of Nepal". Asiatic Researches, or, Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal. 19: 143–192 [160].
  8. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Species Updates – IOC World Bird List". Retrieved 2021-06-13.


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