{{Short description|Genus of birds}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Ramphiculus | image = Sula fruit dove (cropped).jpg | image_caption = Sula fruit dove ''Ramphiculus mangoliensis'' | authority = Bonaparte, 1854 | type_species = ''Ptilonopus occipitalis'' | type_species_authority = Gray, 1844 | synonyms = }}
'''''Ramphiculus''''' is a genus of fruit doves in the family Columbidae. They are restricted to the Philippines and Sulawesi apart from the Jambu fruit dove that occurs on the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, and the black-chinned fruit dove which extends north to Taiwan. These are colourful frugivorous doves that are found in forests and woodlands.
==Taxonomy== The genus ''Ramphiculus'' was introduced in 1854 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte who listed two species but did not specify a type species.<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Bonaparte | first=Charles Lucien | author-link=Charles Lucien Bonaparte | year=1854 | title=Coup d'oeil sur les pigeons | language=French | journal=Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences | volume=39 | pages=869–880 [878] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2820059 }}</ref> In 1855 the English zoologist George Gray designated the type as ''Ptilonopus occipitalis'' Gray GR, 1844, the yellow-breasted fruit dove.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Gray | first=George Robert | author-link=George Robert Gray | year=1855 | title=Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum | location=London | publisher=British Museum | page=97 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/17136736 }}</ref> The genus name is a diminutive of the Ancient Greek ῥαμφη/''rhamphē'' meaning "bill".<ref>{{ cite web | last=Jobling | first=James A. | title=Ramphiculus | work=The Key to Scientific Names | url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/key-to-scientific-names/search?q=Ramphiculus | publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology | access-date=3 November 2025 }}</ref>
The species placed in this genus were formerly placed in the genus ''Ptilinopus''. A molecular genetic study published in 2014 found that the fruit dove genus ''Ptilinopus'' was paraphyletic.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1=Cibois | first1=A. | last2=Thibault | first2=J.-C. | last3=Bonillo | first3=C. | last4=Filardi | first4=C.E. | last5=Watling | first5=D. | last6=Pasquet | first6=E. | date=2014 | title=Phylogeny and biogeography of the fruit doves (Aves: Columbidae) | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=70 | pages=442-453 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2013.08.019}}</ref> In a step towards creating monophyletic genera, two species were moved from ''Ptilinopus'' to ''Megaloprepia'' and nine species were moved from ''Ptilinopus'' to ''Ramphiculus''.<ref name=avilist>{{ cite web | author=AviList Core Team | date=2025 | title=AviList: The Global Avian Checklist, v2025 | doi=10.2173/avilist.v2025 | doi-access=free | url=http://www.avilist.org/checklist/v2025/ | access-date=2 November 2025 }}</ref>
==Species== The genus contains 9 species.<ref name=avilist/> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Common name !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- |120px||Yellow-breasted fruit dove||''Ramphiculus occipitalis''||Philippines (except Palawan group and Sulu Archipelago) |- |120px||Flame-breasted fruit dove||''Ramphiculus marchei''||montane forest of Luzon (northern Philippines) |- |120px||Cream-breasted fruit dove||''Ramphiculus merrilli''||Luzon group (north Philippines) |- |120px||Red-eared fruit dove||''Ramphiculus fischeri''||montane Sulawesi |- |120px||Jambu fruit dove||''Ramphiculus jambu''||peninsular Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and western Java |- | ||Oberholser's fruit dove||''Ramphiculus gularis''||lowland forest of Sulawesi |- |120px||Banggai fruit dove||''Ramphiculus subgularis''||Peleng and Banggai Islands, in Banggai Island (off eastern Sulawesi) |- |120px||Sula fruit dove||''Ramphiculus mangoliensis''||Sula Islands (Taliabu, Seho, and Mangole) |- |120px||Black-chinned fruit dove||''Ramphiculus leclancheri''||Philippines and Taiwan |- |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Columbimorphae Genera|C.|state=collapsed}}
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Category:Ramphiculus Category:Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte