Spice imperial pigeon

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.

Spice imperial pigeon

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ducula
Species:
D. myristicivora
Binomial name
Ducula myristicivora
(Scopoli, 1786)

Taxonomy

The spice imperial pigeon was formally described in 1786 by the Austrian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli and given the binomial name Columba myristicivora.[2] 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".[3] The type locality is New Guinea.[4] This species is now placed in the genus Ducula that was introduced by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson in 1836.[5][6]

Two subspecies are recognised:[6]

  • D. m. myristicivora (Scopoli, 1786) – Widi Islands (off northeast Moluccas), Raja Ampat Islands (west of New Guinea)
  • D. m. geelvinkiana (Schlegel, 1873) – islands in Geelvink Bay (west New Guinea)

The subspecies D. m. geelvinkiana is sometimes treated as a distinct species, the Geelvink imperial pigeon (Ducula geelvinkiana).[7]

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References
  1. BirdLife International (2012). "Ducula myristicivora". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. 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). Volume 2. Ticini [Pavia]: Typographia Reg. & Imp. Monasterii S. Salvatoris. p. 94.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 264. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1937). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 45.
  5. Hodgson, Brian Houghton (1836). "Notices of the ornithology of Nepal". Asiatic researches, or, Transactions of the society instituted in Bengal. 19: 143-192 [160].
  6. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  7. del Hoyo, J.; Collar, N.; Kirwan, G.M.; Garcia, E.F.J. (2020). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Geelvink Imperial-pigeon (Ducula geelvinkiana)". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. Retrieved 14 March 2020.


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