Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii
The white-capped fruit dove, also called kuku locally, is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It was described by French naturalist and surgeon Adolphe-Simon Neboux in 1840. It is endemic to the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia. The name honours French admiral and botanist Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars. Two subspecies exist on the islands, Ptilinopus d. dupetithouarsii and Ptilinopus d. viridior.
Céline Labaume · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- white-capped fruit-dovePBDB
- Sits inside
- PtilinopusPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, granivorePBDB, for Columbidae
- Life habit
- volantPBDB, for Columbidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Columbidae
- Mass
- 100 gWikidata
Time the record covers
At most 12 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.7 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii on record, most of them in the Holocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Holocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii and its relatives
HoloceneWhere Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii and its relatives were recorded in the Holocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Alopecoenas rubescens2 sites
- Ducula galeata2 sites
- Gallirallus roletti2 sites
- Gallus gallus2 sites
- Porphyrio paepae2 sites
- Vini sinotoi2 sites
- Vini vidivici2 sites
- Acrocephalus mendanae1 site
- Columbidae1 site
- Gallicolumba1 site
- Gallirallus gracilitibia1 site
- Myiagra1 site
- Papasula abbotti1 site
- Porzana1 site
- Rallidae1 site
- Todiramphus godeffroyi1 site
- Vini1 site
- Vini ultramarina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
2 references- A chronostratigraphic analysis of landbird extinction on Tahuata, Marquesas Islands2
- Extinction of birds in eastern Polynesia: A review of the record, and comparison with other Pacific island groups1
Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Céline Labaume
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPtilinopus through timeFormations of the HoloceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Neboux 1840)