Ptilonopus purpureocinctus = Ptilinopus roseicapilla (Mariana fruit dove, totot) Ptilonopus purpureocinctus G.R.Gray = Ptilinopus roseicapilla (Lesson, 1831)
English: Mariana Fruit-dove
Date 1853 (published 1854)
Source Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (vol. 1853, plate Aves LV)
Author Joseph Wolf (1820–1899)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PtilonopusPurpureocinctusWolf.jpg
The Mariana fruit dove (Ptilinopus roseicapilla), totot on Guam or Paluman totut in Northern Marianas Islands, also known as mwee’mwe in the Carolinian language, is a small, up to 24 cm long, green fruit dove native and endemic to Guam and the Northern Marianas Islands in the Pacific. Ptilinopus roseicapilla has a red forehead; greyish head, back and breast; and yellow belly patch and undertail coverts.
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus roseicapilla (Lesson, 1831)
