The crimson-crowned fruit dove (''Ptilinopus porphyraceus'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in American Samoa,

Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...

, Marshall Islands, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Its natural habitats are

subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Description TSMF is generally found in large, discont ...

and subtropical or tropical

mangrove forest Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones. Mangrove forests grow mainly at tropical and subtropical latitudes because mangroves cannot withstand fr ...

Taxonomy and systematics

Until 2016, both the

purple-capped fruit dove The purple-capped fruit dove or Pohnpei fruit dove (''Ptilinopus ponapensis''), is a species of bird in the family Columbidae found on Chuuk and Pohnpei in the Caroline Islands. It was formerly considered as a subspecies of the crimson-crowned ...

and the

Kosrae fruit dove The Kosrae fruit dove (''Ptilinopus hernsheimi''), is a species of bird in the family Columbidae found on Kosrae in the Micronesian Islands. It was formerly considered as a subspecies of the crimson-crowned fruit dove. Its natural habitats are s ...

were also considered as subspecies of the crimson-crowned fruit dove. The crimson-crowned fruit dove has two remaining sub-species: * ''P. p. porphyraceus -'' ( Temminck, 1821): Found on Niue, Tonga and Fiji Islands * ''P. p. fasciatus'' - Peale, 1848: Found on Samoa

References

crimson-crowned fruit dove Birds of Fiji Birds of Tonga Birds of the Pacific Ocean crimson-crowned fruit dove Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck {{Columbiformes-stub