The Flores Sea cuckoo-dove (''Macropygia macassariensis'') is a species of

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in the family

Columbidae Columbidae () is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They primarily ...

. It is found on

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

, Tanakeke and Selayar Islands, and some of the eastern

Lesser Sundas The Lesser Sunda Islands or nowadays known as Nusa Tenggara Islands ( id, Kepulauan Nusa Tenggara, formerly ) are an archipelago in Maritime Southeast Asia, north of Australia. Together with the Greater Sunda Islands to the west they make up ...

. It was previously lumped together with the

Tanimbar cuckoo-dove The Tanimbar cuckoo-dove (''Macropygia timorlaoensis'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to the Tanimbar Islands in Indonesia. It was previously grouped together with the Timor cuckoo-dove and the Flores Sea cuckoo-dov ...

and the

Timor cuckoo-dove The Timor cuckoo-dove (''Macropygia magna'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in Timor, Wetar and the eastern Lesser Sundas. It was previously lumped together with the Tanimbar cuckoo-dove and the Flores Sea cuckoo-dove ...

as the dusky or

bar-necked cuckoo-dove The bar-necked cuckoo-dove, also called the dusky cuckoo-dove was split into the following species in 2016. The name "bar-necked cuckoo-dove" remains valid when used to describe the ''Macropygia magna'' species complex as all of its members have bar ...

. The Flores Sea cuckoo-dove has two subspecies: * ''M. m. macassariensis''

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, 1865 - southwest

, Selayar and Tanakeke Islands. * ''M. m. longa''

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, 1930 - Tanahjampea and Kalaotoa Is. (eastern

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References

* Ng, E.Y.X., J.A. Eaton, P. Verbelen, R.O. Hutchinson, and F.E. Rheindt. 2016. Using bioacoustic data to test species limits in an Indo-Pacific island radiation of Macropygia cuckoo doves. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118: 786–812. Macropygia Birds of Indonesia Birds described in 1865 {{Columbiformes-stub