Raiatea Fruit-dove
Ptilinopus chrysogaster
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae
The Raiatea fruit dove (Ptilinopus chrysogaster) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to the Society Islands in French Polynesia. Although first named to science in 1853, this fruit dove was evidently discovered 30 years earlier, by René Primevère Lesson (1794–1849), while serving as naturalist aboard La Coquille.
Le Ptilope de Raiatea (Ptilinopus chrysogaster) est une espèce d'oiseaux appartenant à la famille des Columbidae. Certaines autorités taxonomiques considèrent ce taxon comme une sous-espèce du Ptilope de la Société (Ptilinopus purpuratus). Répartition Le Ptilope de Kosrae est endémique de l'archipel des îles Sous-le-Vent en Polynésie française.
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Distribution
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