Little Green-Pigeon

Little Green-Pigeon / Treron olax

Little Green-Pigeon

Here the details of the Little Green-Pigeon named bird below:

SCI Name:  Treron olax
Protonym:  Columba olax Pl.Col. livr.41 pl.241
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae /
Taxonomy Code:  ligpig1
Type Locality:  Sumatra.
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Publish Year:  1823
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

TRERON
(Columbidae; Ϯ Thick-billed Green Pigeon T. curvirostra) Gr. τρηρων trērōn, τρηρωνος trērōnos  pigeon, dove  < τρεω treō  to flee in fear; "TRÉRON, Treron.  Columba, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec un peu robuste, caréné en dessus, droit à la base, crochu vers le bout. — Ailes longues, pointues.  Esp. Columba curvirostra, Gm." (Vieillot 1816); "Treron Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 49. Type, by monotypy, Columba curvirostra Gmelin." (Peters 1937, III, 14).
Var. Theron, Trenon.
Synon. Ancistroa, Butreron, Crocopus, Dendrophaps, Dendrophassa, Osmotreron, Phalacrotreron, Rhamphotreron, Rhombura, Romeris, Sphenocercus, Sphenoena, Sphenotreron, Sphenurus, Toria, Vinago.

olax
L. olax, olacis  odorous  < olere  to smell.