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Banded Fruit Dove

Ptilinopus cinctus (Temminck, 1809)

Source-backed taxonomic record

Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.

Open encyclopedia reference

The banded fruit dove or black-backed fruit dove (Ptilinopus cinctus) is a large (38–44 cm in length, 450-570 g in weight) pigeon with white head, neck and upper breast; black back and upperwing grading to grey on rump; black tail with broad grey terminal band; underparts grey, demarcated from white head.

Wikipedia contributors, Banded fruit dove; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T08:08:58.629296+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.

Identity & source status

Scientific name
Ptilinopus cinctus (Temminck, 1809)
Name authority
(Temminck, 1809)
Common name
Banded Fruit Dove
Rank
species
Accepted status
accepted
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Columbiformes
Family
Columbidae
Genus
Ptilinopus
Extinction status
Recorded extant

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

  1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
  2. kingdomAnimalia
  3. phylumChordata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. infraphylumGnathostomata
  6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
  7. megaclassTetrapoda
  8. classAves
  9. orderColumbiformes
  10. familyColumbidae
  11. subfamilyRaphinae
  12. genusPtilinopus Swainson, 1825
  13. speciesPtilinopus cinctus (Temminck, 1809)

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Ptilinopus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

SpeciesClassificationSource status
Orange-fronted Fruit DovePtilinopus aurantiifrons G. R. Gray, 1858ColumbidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Makatea Fruit DovePtilinopus chalcurus G. R. Gray, 1860ColumbidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Coroneted Fruit DovePtilinopus coronulatus G. R. Gray, 1858ColumbidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Red-naped Fruit DovePtilinopus dohertyi Rothschild, 1896ColumbidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
White-headed Fruit DovePtilinopus eugeniae (Gould, 1856)ColumbidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Red-eared Fruit DovePtilinopus fischeri Brüggemann, 1876ColumbidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Carunculated Fruit DovePtilinopus granulifrons Hartert, 1898ColumbidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Red-bellied Fruit DovePtilinopus greyi Bonaparte, 1857ColumbidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Rapa Fruit DovePtilinopus huttoni Finsch, 1874ColumbidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Grey-headed Fruit DovePtilinopus hyogastrus (Temminck, 1824)ColumbidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Orange-bellied Fruit DovePtilinopus iozonus G. R. Gray, 1858ColumbidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant
Jambu Fruit DovePtilinopus jambu (J. F. Gmelin, 1789)ColumbidaeChordataAccepted speciesRecorded extant

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Documented distribution

Source distribution statements, not a complete range map. A listed locality is not necessarily a place of origin.

Southern Asia

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

  1. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=177309 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:4Q7MW. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.