Ptilopus jobiensis = Ptilinopus iozonus (orange-bellied fruit dove)

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Ptilopus jobiensis = Ptilinopus iozonus (orange-bellied fruit dove)

PTILOPUS JOBIENSIS (Schlegel.) = Ptilinopus iozonus jobiensis (subsp. of orange-bellied fruit dove)
Date 1876
Source Ornithological Miscellany. Volume 2
Author Joseph Smit (1836–1929)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PtilopusJobiensisSmit.jpg

The orange-bellied fruit dove (Ptilinopus iozonus) is a small (21 cm in length) pigeon with mainly green plumage, distinguished by a large orange patch on the lower breast and belly, a small lilac shoulder patch, pale yellow undertail coverts, and a grey terminal band on the tail. The doves are found in New Guinea, the Aru Islands and western Papuan islands where it inhabits lowland rainforest, secondary forest and mangroves. It has been recorded from Boigu Island, Queensland, Australian territory in northern Torres Strait.

Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus iozonus Gray, 1858

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