Kosrae Fruit-Dove

Here the details of the Kosrae Fruit-Dove named bird below:

SCI Name:  Ptilinopus hernsheimi
Protonym:  Ptilopus Hernsheimi J.Orn. 28 p.303
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Ptilinopus
Taxonomy Code:  kosfrd1
Type Locality:  Kusaie, Caroline Islands.
Author:  Finsch
Publish Year:  1880
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.

hernsheimi
Franz Hernsheim (1845-1909) German Consul in the Marshall Is. 1878-1885, manager of Jaluit Trading Company which administered German possessions in Micronesia (Ptilinopus).