Black-banded Fruit-Dove

Black-banded Fruit-Dove / Ptilinopus alligator

Black-banded Fruit-Dove

Here the details of the Black-banded Fruit-Dove named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ptilinopus alligator
Protonym:  Ptilopus (Leucotreron) alligator Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt3 p.354 pl.29
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae /
Taxonomy Code:  bbfdov2
Type Locality:  Near the sources of the South Alligator River, Arnhem Land, Australia.
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Publish Year:  1898
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

PTILINOPUS
(Columbidae; Ϯ Rose-crowned Fruit Dove P. regina) Gr. πτιλον ptilon  feather; πους pous, ποδος podos  foot; "Genus. PTILINOPUS. Mihi.  Generic Character.  Alæ mediocres, remigum pinna prima apicem versus contracta, tertia quartaque longissimis.  Rostrum gracile.  Tarsi plumosi.  ...  PTILINOPUS purpuratus. (Var. Regina.)  ...  Tarsi covered with soft and thick-set feathers down to the divisions of the claws; the soles are broad and flat." (Swainson 1825); "Ptilinopus Swainson, Zool. Journ., 1, 1825, p. 473. Type, by monotypy, Ptilinopus purpuratus var. regina Swainson." (Peters 1937, III, 28).
Var. Ptilonapus, Ptilonopus, Ptilopus, Ptinilopus
Synon. Chlorotreron, Curotreron, Cyanotreron, Eutreron, Haemataena, Jambotreron, Jotreron, Kranocera, Kurukuru, Kurutreron, Lamprotreron, Laryngogramma, Leucotreron, Mezotreron, Neoleucotreron, Oedirhinus, Omeotreron, Poecilotreron, Ptilopodiscus, Reginopus, Spilotreron, Sylphidaena, Sylphitreron, Terenotreron, Thoracotreron, Thouarsitreron, Thyliphaps, Xenotreron.

alligator
Alligator Rivers Region (East Alligator River, West Alligator River, South Alligator River), Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia.