Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)
Red-naped Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus dohertyi) - HBW 4, p. 205
French: Ptilope de Sumba
German: Rahmkopf-Fruchttaube
Spanish: Tilopo de Sumba
Other common names: Doherty's/Purple-tailed Fruit-dove
Taxonomy: Ptilopus dohertyi Rothschild, 1896, Sumba.
Formerly placed in genus Leucotreron; a later proposal returned the present species to genus Ptilinopus, but within subgenus Leucotreron along with P. cinctus, P. alligator and P. porphyreus; these four species currently considered to form a superspecies. Monotypic.
Distribution: Sumba (Lesser Sundas).
- Vulnerable Enlarge map
- 3.8 A perched bird. Lesser Sun..., Apr 2008 mehdhalaouate
- 3.6 An individual ... Lesser Sun..., Aug 2011 James Eaton
