Classification

Original description

Citation:
  (Linnaeus, C 1766)

Reference:
   Systema Naturae ed. 12, vol. 1, part 1

Protonym:
  Columba aenea

Type locality:
  'in Moluccis'; error = Flores, designated by Hartert and Goodson, Nov. Zool., 25, 1918, p. 346.

Link:
  https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/137337#page/287/mode/1up

Avibase identifiers

Avibase ID:
  579C780F34888DE8

Avibase ID:
  avibase-579C780F

Short link:
  https://avibase.ca/579C780F

Taxonomic Serial Number:
  TSN: 177361

Geographic range:

• Ducula aenea: western, southern, and eastern India, and Sri Lanka, eastward to southern China, Indochina, but absent from much of Thailand, and south again through the Thai-Malay Peninsula, thence through the Greater Sundas and Borneo, the Lesser Sundas east as far as Alor, Sulawesi, and north throughout Philippines
• Ducula aenea aenea: Philippines (except for northern Luzon and associated islands and the southwestern islands)
• Ducula aenea polia: Thai-Malay Peninsula and Greater and Lesser Sundas (Lombok eastward to Alor)
• Ducula aenea sylvatica: northern India eastward to southeastern China (including Hainan), southern Thailand and southern Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam
• Ducula aenea andamanica: Andaman Islands
• Ducula aenea pusilla: southern India and Sri Lanka
• Ducula aenea consobrina: islands off western Sumatra (Simeulue southward to the Mentawai Islands)
• Ducula aenea palawanensis: Palawan, adjacent southern Philippines, and Banggai Islands (off eastern Sulawesi)
• Ducula aenea fugaensis: northern Philippines (Calayan, Camiguin Norte, and Fuga)
• Ducula aenea nuchalis: northern Luzon (northern Philippines)
• Ducula aenea paulina: Sulawesi and associated islands, including Togian, Banggai, and Sula islands (off eastern Sulawesi)
• Ducula aenea intermedia: Sangihe and Talaud island
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