Ptilinopus mercierii tristrami Salvadori, 1892:1
Hiva Oa red-moustached fruit dove
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Ptilopus tristrami Salvadori, 1892:1; Ptilinopus tristrami Salvadori, 1892:1
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1922 (1980?)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
This species was last collected in 1922, and this is generally believed to have been the last record of the species. However, Hay (1986) reported a sighting from 1980. But this has been called into question (Collar et al. 1994).
Distribution
Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
At least 11 specimens are known (BirdLife International, 2012).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Salvadori, T. (1892). Descrizione di una specie di Colombo del genere Ptilopus. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino 7(135): 1-3.
Other references:
BirdLife International. (2000). Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge.
BirdLife International. (2012). Ptilinopus mercierii. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 22 September 2012.
BirdLife International. 2016. Ptilinopus mercierii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22691495A93314660. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22691495A93314660.en. Accessed on 20 June 2022.
Cibois, Alice, Thibault, Jean-Claude, Meyer, Jean-Yves and Pasquet, Eric. (2015). On the origin of sympatric fruit doves in a small and remote Pacific archipelago. Pacific Science 69(3): 299-312.
Collar, N. J.; Crosby, M. J.; Stattersfield, A. J. (1994). Birds to watch 2: the world list of threatened birds. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
Gibbs, D., Barnes, E. and Cox, J. (2001). Pigeons and Doves. Robertsbridge, Sussex: Pica Press.
Godino, F. M. J. (2012). Hiva Oa Red-moustached Fruit-Dove. extinct-website.com / extinct-website.co.uk .Downloaded on Saturday, September 22, 2012.
Hay, R. (1986). Bird conservation in the Pacific Islands. International Council for Bird Preservation, Cambridge, U.K.
Holyoak, D. T. and Thibault, J. -C. (1984). Contribution à l'étude des oiseaux de Polynésie orientale. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle - Serie A: Zoologie 127: 1-209.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.
Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292. [pp. 143-144]
Ripley, S. D. and Birckhead, H. (1942). Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition. 51. On the fruit-pigeons of the Ptilinopus purpuratus group. Am. Mus. Novit. 1192: 1-14.
Seitre, R. and Seitre, J. (1992). Causes of land-bird extinctions in French Polynesia. Oryx 26: 215-222.
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