Red-bellied Fruit-Dove
Red-bellied Fruit-Dove
Here the details of the Red-bellied Fruit-Dove named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ptilinopus greyii Iconogr.Pig. pl.20
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Ptilinopus
Taxonomy Code: rbfdov1
Type Locality: Isle of Pines and Loyalty Islands.
Author: Bonaparte
Publish Year: 1857
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.
greyi / greyii
● Capt. Sir George Grey (1812-1898) British Army, explorer in Australia, Lt.-Gov. of South Australia 1841-1845, Gov. of New Zealand 1846-1854, 1861-1867, Gov. and C-i-C of Cape Colony 1855-1859, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1877-1879 (syn. Egretta sacra, subsp. Gallirallus australis, Ptilinopus, syn. Strigops habroptilus).
● Sir Edward Grey, 3rd Bt. and Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933) British statesman, naturalist, writer (syn. Poeoptera stuhlmanni).
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)