Genus Ducula Hodgson, 1836

Museums

Regional Maps

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Schodde, R. in Schodde, R. & Mason, I.J. 1997. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae). In, Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 37.2 xiii 440 pp. [49] (based on Goodwin, D. 1960. Taxonomy of the genus Ducula. Ibis 102: 526–535 and Goodwin, D. 1983. Pigeons and Doves of the World. Ithaca : Cornell University Press 363 pp. 3 pls [Mathews, G.M. 1925. The Birds of Australia. Supplements 4 & 5. Bibliography of the Birds of Australia Pts 1 & 2. London : H.F. & G. Witherby viii 149 pp.])

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

COLUMBIDAE: Carpophaga lepida Cassin, 1855 [as Globicera rubricera Bonaparte, 1854]

COLUMBIDAE: Globicera pacifica queenslandica Mathews, 1914 [as Globicera pacifica pacifica (Gmelin, 1789).] — Mathews, G.M. 1927. Systema Avium Australasianarum. A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region. London : British Ornithologists' Union Pt 1 iv 426 pp. [44, 45]

For review of the single Australian records of these two south-west Pacific imperial-pigeons, Ducula rubricera (Bonaparte, 1854) and D. pacifica (Gmelin, 1789), see Mathews, G.M. (1914); Mathews, G.M. (1919: 414, pl. 366); Kershaw, J.A. (1919); Kinghorn, J.R. (1925); Greenway, J.C. (1978). Ducula pacifica (Gmelin, 1789) is maintained as validly recorded for Australia by RAOU Checklist Committee, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (1926) and it is treated as a visitor by Mayr, E. & Serventy, D.L. (1944). Nevertheless, it is excluded here and by Condon, H.T. (1975).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Christmas Island Province (23)

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: Gulf of Carpentaria, N Gulf, NE coastal, Torres Strait Islands
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Indonesia
  • Aru Islands
  • Irian Jaya
  • Sulawesi (Celebes)
• Papua New Guinea

Oriental Region

• Christmas Island (Aust. Terr.)
• India
• Indonesia
  • Sulawesi (Celebes)
  • Sumatra
• Philippines
• Sri Lanka

General References

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp.

Condon, H.T. 1975. Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Part 1 Non-Passerines. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union xx 311 pp. (subgeneric arrangement and generic limits)

Greenway, J.C. 1978. Type specimens of birds in the American Museum of Natural History. Pt 2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 161: 1-306

Kershaw, J.A. 1919. A new pigeon recorded for Australia - the Red-cered Pigeon (Globicera rubricera). The Emu 18: 239 pl. XXXV

Kinghorn, J.R. 1925. Notes on two pigeons of the genus Globicera. The Emu 24: 286-289

Mathews, G.M. 1914. Additions and corrections to my List of the Birds of Australia. Austral Avian Records 2(5): 83-107 [Date published 24 Sep 1914]

Mathews, G.M. 1919. The Birds of Australia. London : Witherby & Co. Vol. 7 pt 5 pp. 385-499 + xii pls 363-370 Appendixes A & B. [Date published 12 June 1919: publication dated as from preface, 12 June 1919 given in Appendix B]

Mayr, E. & Serventy, D.L. 1944. The number of Australian bird species. The Emu 44: 33-40

Peters, J.L. 1937. Check-list of Birds of the World. Cambridge : Harvard University Press Vol. 3 xiii 311 pp. (subgeneric arrangement and generic limits)

Peters, J.L. 1938. Generic limits of some fruit pigeons. Proc. VIII Int. Ornithol. Congr., Oxford p. 371–391. (subgeneric arrangement and generic limits)

RAOU Checklist Committee, Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1926. Official Checklist of the Birds of Australia. Melbourne : Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union x 212 pp.

Salvadori, T. 1893. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Columbae, or Pigeons. London : British Museum Vol. 21 xvii 676 pp. XV pls. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

Sibley, C.G. & Monroe, B.L., Jr 1990. Distribution and Taxonomy of Birds of the World. New Haven : Yale University Press xxiv 1111 pp. (subgeneric arrangement and generic limits)

Wolters, H.E. 1975. Die Vogelarten der Erde. Eine systematische Liste mit Verbreitungsangaben sowie deutschen und englischen Namen. Hamburg : Paul Parey Lief. 1, 1-80 pp. (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-Nov-2020	AVES	10-Nov-2020	MODIFIED
10-Nov-2015	COLUMBIDAE	28-Feb-2020	MODIFIED
		10-Nov-2020	MODIFIED