Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)
Knob-billed Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus insolitus) - HBW 4, p. 221
French: Ptilope casqué
German: Knopffruchttaube
Spanish: Tilopo Insólito
Other common names: Red-knobbed/Knob-billed Orange-bellied Fruit-dove; Knob-billed Fruit-pigeon
Taxonomy: Ptilopus insolitus Schlegel, 1863, New Caledonia; error = New Ireland.
Forms a superspecies with P. iozonus; these two form a species-group with P. hyogaster and P. granulifrons, and perhaps also P. melanospila and P. nanus. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- inferior Hartert, 1924 - Mussau and Emira in St Matthias Group (N Bismarck Archipelago).
- insolitus (Schlegel, 1863) - Bismarck Archipelago from New Hanover, Djaul, New Ireland and Tabar, Lihir and Feni Is through Watom and Duke of York I to New Britain and Lolobau, and W through Sakar, Umboi, Tolokiwa and Long to Crown I.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Adult perched
Locality New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago (ssp insolitus)
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