Amboyna cuckoo-dove | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Columbiformes |
Family: | Columbidae |
Genus: | Macropygia |
Species: | M. amboinensis
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Binomial name | |
Macropygia amboinensis (Linnaeus, 1766)
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Subspecies | |
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Synonyms | |
Columba amboinensis Linnaeus, 1766 |
The Amboyna cuckoo-dove (Macropygia amboinensis) is a dove in the genus Macropygia found in the Moluccas and New Guinea. It was one of three new species defined when the slender-billed cuckoo-dove was split up in 2016 and retains the Latin binomial of the former species.[1]