Ptilinopus merrilli: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae
- Genus
- Ptilinopus
- Species
- Ptilinopus merrilli
- Scientific Name
- Ptilinopus merrilli
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cream-breasted fruit dove
The cream-breasted fruit dove (Ramphiculus merrilli) or cream-bellied fruit dove is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is a large and primarily greenish dove with a distinctive red wing patch and cream coloured breast which it was named after. It is endemic to the Philippines found only on the islands of Luzon, Catanduanes and Polillo Islands. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland to montane forests of up to 1,300 masl. It is threatened by habitat loss, and trapping for the pet trade. This species was formerly placed in the genus Ptilinopus.
It is illegal to hunt, capture or keep cream-breasted fruit-doves under Philippine Law RA 9147.
...Ptilinopus merrilli in languages:
- Arabic
- يمام الفاكهة كريمي الصدر
- Bokmål
- Luzonfruktdue
- Czech
- holub Merrillův
- Dutch
- Merrills Jufferduif
- English
- Cream-breasted Fruit-Dove
- Finnish
- karvasiipikyyhky
- French
- Ptilope de Merrill
- Hungarian
- Merrill-gyümölcsgalamb
- Portuguese
- Pombo-da-fruta-filipino
- Russian
- Пёстрый голубь Меррилла
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Ptilinopus alligator
- Ptilinopus arcanus
- Ptilinopus aurantiifrons
- Ptilinopus bernsteinii
- Ptilinopus chalcurus
- Ptilinopus chrysogaster
- Ptilinopus cinctus
- Ptilinopus coralensis
- Ptilinopus coronulatus
- Ptilinopus dohertyi
- Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii
- Ptilinopus epius
- Ptilinopus eugeniae
- Ptilinopus fischeri
- Ptilinopus granulifrons
- Ptilinopus greyi
- Ptilinopus hernsheimi
- Ptilinopus huttoni
- Ptilinopus hyogastrus
- Ptilinopus insolitus
- Ptilinopus insularis
- Ptilinopus iozonus
- Ptilinopus jambu
- Ptilinopus layardi
- Ptilinopus leclancheri
- Ptilinopus luteovirens
- Ptilinopus magnificus
- Ptilinopus mangoliensis
- Ptilinopus marchei
- Ptilinopus melanospilus
- Ptilinopus mercierii
- Ptilinopus merrilli
- Ptilinopus monacha
- Ptilinopus nainus
- Ptilinopus occipitalis
- Ptilinopus ornatus
- Ptilinopus pelewensis
- Ptilinopus perlatus
- Ptilinopus perousii
- Ptilinopus ponapensis
- Ptilinopus porphyraceus
- Ptilinopus porphyreus
- Ptilinopus pulchellus
- Ptilinopus purpuratus
- Ptilinopus rarotongensis
- Ptilinopus regina
- Ptilinopus richardsii
- Ptilinopus rivoli
- Ptilinopus roseicapilla
- Ptilinopus solomonensis
- Ptilinopus speciosus
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- Ptilinopus superbus
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- Ptilinopus victor
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