Ptilinopus porphyraceus
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Ebon Purple-capped Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus porphyraces marshallianus) |
| syn. Ptilinopus marshallianus |
| distribution: Marshall Islands: Ebon |
| local name: - |
| size: (?) extinction date: (?) |
| This subspecies is known
only on the basis of a single specimen, conserved in spirit, which was
collected on the Ebon atoll in the year 1859. This form is not accepted by all ornithologists. |
| References: - S. Dillon Ripley; Hugh Birckhead: Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. 51, On the fruit pigeons of the Ptilinopus purpuratus group. American Museum novitates; no. 1192 (1942) - Dirk H. R. Spennemann; Hemley Benjamin: Notes on the avifauna of Ebon Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands : observations gathered during a brief field trip, 17-22 June 1992, with some comments on the Marshallese nomenclature of birds. Majuro Atoll : Republic of the Marshall Islands, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Historic Preservation Office, 1992. - David Gibbs, Eustace Barnes, John Cox: Pigeons and Doves, A Guide to the Pigeons and Doves of the World. Pica Press, Sussex 2001 - Dirk H. R. Spennemann: Extinctions and extirpations in Marshall Islands avifauna since European contact-a review of historic evidence. Micronesica 38(2): 253–266. 2006 |