Ptilinopus arcanus Ripley & Rabor, 1955:1
Negros Fruit dove, Negros fruit-dove
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last (and only) record: 1953 (Martin et al., 2023)
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered
There was a possible sighting in 2003 (Szabo et al., 2012).
Distribution
Negros, Philippines
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ripley, S. Dillon and Rabor, D. S. (1955). A new fruit pigeon from the Philippines. Postilla Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 21: 1-2.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2012a). Ptilinopus arcanus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 09 July 2012.
BirdLife International. (2012b). Species factsheet: Ptilinopus arcanus. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 09/07/2012.
Brooks, T. M., Evans, T. D., Dutson, G. C. L., Anderson, G. Q. A., Asane, D. C., Timmins, R. J. and Toledo, A. G. (1992). Conservation status of the birds of Negros, Philippines. Bird Conservation International 2(4): 273-302.
Butchart, S. H. M.; Collar, N. J.; Crosby, M. J. & Tobias, J. A. (2005). Asian enigmas: "Lost" and poorly known birds: targets for birders in Asia. Birding Asia 3: 41-49.
Butchart, Stuart H. M., Lowe, Stephen, Martin, Rob W., Symes, Andy, Westrip, James R. S. and Wheatley, Hannah. (2018a). Which bird species have gone extinct? A novel quantitative classification approach. Biological Conservation 227: 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.08.014
Butchart, Stuart H. M., Stattersfield, A. J. and Brooks, T. M. (2006). Going or gone: defining ‘Possibly Extinct’ species to give a truer picture of recent extinctions. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 126A: 7-24.
Butchart, Stuart H. M., Wheatley, Hannah, Lowe, Stephen, Westrip, James R. S., Symes, Andy and Martin, Rob W. (2018b). Data for: Which bird species have gone extinct? A novel quantitative classification approach. Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/vvjhpmyxb4.1
Collar, N. J., Andreev, A. V., Chan, S., Crosby, M. J., Subramanya, S. and Tobias, J. A. (2001). Threatened Birds of Asia: The BirdLife International Red Data Book. Third edition. Cambridge, U.K.: BirdLife International.
Collar, N. J. and Lambert, F. R. (2013). The elusive Negros Fruit Dove Ptilinopus arcanus sixty years on. BirdingAsia 19: 38-41.
Collar, Nigel J. and Sykes, Brian R. (2009). Lost, found and saved—OBC conservation: the next 25 years. BirdingASIA 11: 41-46.
Gibbs, D., Barnes, E. and Cox, J. (2001). Pigeons and Doves. Robertsbridge, Sussex: Pica Press.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.
Martin, Thomas E., Bennett, Gareth C., Fairbairn, Andrew J. and Mooers, A. Ø. (2023). ‘Lost’ taxa and their conservation implications. Animal Conservation 26(1): 14-24. https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12788 [Appendix S2 (1617 taxa not seen >10 years); Appendix S3 (562 taxa not seen >50 years)]
Nash, John A. et al. (2024). Species status and phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic Negros Fruit Dove (Ptilinopus arcanus). Ibis. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13305
Szabo JK, Khwaja N, Garnett ST, Butchart SHM. (2012). Global Patterns and Drivers of Avian Extinctions at the Species and Subspecies Level. PLoS ONE 7(10): e47080.
http://www.orientalbirdclub.org/publications/basiafeats/lost3.html
http://ibc.lynxeds.com/species/negros-fruit-dove-ptilinopus-arcanus