Nicobar Pigeon

Nicobar Pigeon / Caloenas nicobarica

Nicobar Pigeon

Here the details of the Nicobar Pigeon named bird below:

SCI Name:  Caloenas nicobarica
Protonym:  Columba nicobarica Syst.Nat.ed.10 p.164
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae /
Taxonomy Code:  nicpig1
Type Locality:  Nicobar Islands.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1758
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

CALOENAS
(Columbidae; Ϯ Nicobar Pigeon C. nicobarica) Gr. καλος kalos  beautiful; οινας oinas, οιναδος oinados  dove; "CALŒNAS, n.  Columba, Gm.  Les Nicombars, Less.  Goura, Steph.  Geophilus, Selby.   C. nicobarica, (Gm.) n., Pl. enl. 491." (G. Gray 1840); "Calœnas Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1840, p. 59.  Type (by original designation): Columba nicobarica L." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 77).     
Var. Calloenas, Calliaenas.   
Synon. Caryocatactes, Geophilus, Phabalectryo.

nicobarensis / nicobarica / nicobaricus / nicobariensis
Nicobar Is.
● “92. COLUMBA.  ...  nicobarica.  15. C. cauda alba, corpore nigro, remigibus cæruleis, dorso viridi-nitente, pennis colli elongatis.  Columba e nicombar. Alb. av. 3. p. 44. t. 47. 48.  Habitat in insula Nicombar prope Pegu indicum.” (Linnaeus 1758) (Caloenas).

SUBSPECIES

Nicobar Pigeon (nicobarica)
SCI Name: Caloenas nicobarica nicobarica
nicobarensis / nicobarica / nicobaricus / nicobariensis
Nicobar Is.
● “92. COLUMBA.  ...  nicobarica.  15. C. cauda alba, corpore nigro, remigibus cæruleis, dorso viridi-nitente, pennis colli elongatis.  Columba e nicombar. Alb. av. 3. p. 44. t. 47. 48.  Habitat in insula Nicombar prope Pegu indicum.” (Linnaeus 1758) (Caloenas).

Nicobar Pigeon (pelewensis)
SCI Name: Caloenas nicobarica pelewensis
pelewensis
Pelew / Palau / Belau Is., Micronesia.