White-capped Fruit-Dove
White-capped Fruit-Dove
Here the details of the White-capped Fruit-Dove named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Columba Du Petithouarsii Rev.Zool. 3 p.289
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Ptilinopus
Taxonomy Code: wcfdov1
Type Locality: Christine, i.e. Tahuata Island, Marquesas Group.
Author: Neboux
Publish Year: 1840
IUCN Status: Least Concern
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.
dupetithouarsii
Adm. Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars (1793-1864) French Navy, commander of La Venus on a round-the-world voyage 1836-1839 (Ptilinopus).
SUBSPECIES
White-capped Fruit-Dove (viridior)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii viridior
viridior
L. viridior, viridioris greener < comp. viridis green < virere to be green.
White-capped Fruit-Dove (dupetithouarsii)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii dupetithouarsii
dupetithouarsii
Adm. Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars (1793-1864) French Navy, commander of La Venus on a round-the-world voyage 1836-1839 (Ptilinopus).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
● and ● See: generic homonyms
lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)