White-tipped Dove
White-tipped Dove
Here the details of the White-tipped Dove named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Leptoptila verreauxi Compt.Rend. 40 p.99
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Leptotila
Taxonomy Code: whtdov
Type Locality: Colombia.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1855
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
LEPTOTILA
(Columbidae; Ϯ Caribbean Dove L. jamaicensis) Gr. λεπτος leptos slender; πτιλον ptilon feather; "Leptotila, Sw. (fig. 299.b, c. 300.b) First quill suddenly narrowed; the fourth longest. Tarsus lengthened, and much longer than the hallux. All the toes long and slender. Knees naked. America only? P. rufaxilla. Nat. Lib. v. pl. 24." (Swainson 1837); "Leptotila Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 349. Type, by monotypy, P. rufaxilla Nat. Libr., 5, pl. 24 = Peristera rufaxilla Selby (not of Richard and Bernard) = Columba jamaicensis Linné." (Peters 1937, III, 122).
Var. Leoptotila, Leptoptila, Leptophila.
Synon. Aechmoptila, Engyptila, Homoptila.
veroxii / verrauxi / verrauxii / verreauxi
● Jules Pierre Verreaux (1807-1873) and his brother Jean Baptiste Édouard Verreaux (1810-1868) French natural history dealers (syn. Anurolimnas castaneiceps, syn. Larus dominicanus).
● Jules Pierre Verreaux (1807-1873) French natural history dealer, collector (syn. Bubo lacteus, subsp. Cinnyricinclus leucogaster, Coua, subsp. Criniger calurus, syn. Cryptomicroeca flaviventris (ex Eopsaltria flavigastra J. Verreaux & des Murs, 1860), syn. Dryoscopus senegalensis, syn. Eupodotis caerulescens, Guttera, Leptotila, Rhipidura, Suthora (ex Suthora gularis J. Verreaux, 1871)).
● Jean Baptiste Édouard Verreaux (1810-1868) French natural history dealer (Cyanomitra). This eponym has been amended to verreauxi, verreauxii, and verroxii.
● see also verreauxii
SUBSPECIES
White-tipped Dove (White-tipped)
SCI Name: Leptotila verreauxi [verreauxi Group]
LEPTOTILA
(Columbidae; Ϯ Caribbean Dove L. jamaicensis) Gr. λεπτος leptos slender; πτιλον ptilon feather; "Leptotila, Sw. (fig. 299.b, c. 300.b) First quill suddenly narrowed; the fourth longest. Tarsus lengthened, and much longer than the hallux. All the toes long and slender. Knees naked. America only? P. rufaxilla. Nat. Lib. v. pl. 24." (Swainson 1837); "Leptotila Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 349. Type, by monotypy, P. rufaxilla Nat. Libr., 5, pl. 24 = Peristera rufaxilla Selby (not of Richard and Bernard) = Columba jamaicensis Linné." (Peters 1937, III, 122).
Var. Leoptotila, Leptoptila, Leptophila.
Synon. Aechmoptila, Engyptila, Homoptila.
White-tipped Dove (decolor)
SCI Name: Leptotila verreauxi decolor
decolor
L. decolor, decoloris pale, faded, off-colour, discoloured < de after, from; color, coloris colour.
White-tipped Dove (brasiliensis Group)
SCI Name: Leptotila verreauxi [brasiliensis Group]
LEPTOTILA
(Columbidae; Ϯ Caribbean Dove L. jamaicensis) Gr. λεπτος leptos slender; πτιλον ptilon feather; "Leptotila, Sw. (fig. 299.b, c. 300.b) First quill suddenly narrowed; the fourth longest. Tarsus lengthened, and much longer than the hallux. All the toes long and slender. Knees naked. America only? P. rufaxilla. Nat. Lib. v. pl. 24." (Swainson 1837); "Leptotila Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 349. Type, by monotypy, P. rufaxilla Nat. Libr., 5, pl. 24 = Peristera rufaxilla Selby (not of Richard and Bernard) = Columba jamaicensis Linné." (Peters 1937, III, 122).
Var. Leoptotila, Leptoptila, Leptophila.
Synon. Aechmoptila, Engyptila, Homoptila.
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)