Chestnut-quilled Rock-Pigeon
Chestnut-quilled Rock-Pigeon
Here the details of the Chestnut-quilled Rock-Pigeon named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Petrophassa rufipennis Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt3 p.354 pl.28
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Petrophassa
Taxonomy Code: cqrpig1
Type Locality: South Alligator River, Northern Territory.
Author: Collett
Publish Year: 1898
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
PETROPHASSA
(Columbidae; Ϯ White-quilled Rock Pigeon P. albipennis) Gr. πετρα petra rock; φασσα phassa pigeon; "A highly interesting Pigeon from the north-west coast, which, as it differs from all the other forms of its family, and is said to inhabit the rocks, I propose to make the type of a new genus with the name of Genus PETROPHASSA. Characteres generici.— Fere ut in Peristera. Alæ autem et rotundatæ sunt et admodum breviores; deest etiam color metallice æneus. Cauda magis rotundata. PETROPHASSA ALBIPENNIS. ... Hab. Western Australia. Allied to the members of the genus Peristera." (Gould 1841); "Petrophassa Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1840 (1841), p. 173. Type, by monotypy, Petrophassa albipennis Gould." (Peters 1937, III, 117).
Var. Etrophassa.
rufipenne / rufipennis
Mod. L. rufipennis red-winged, red-feathered < L. rufus red, rufous;
-pennis -winged < penna feather.
● ex “Roupenne” of Levaillant 1801, pll. 83-84 < French homophone roux red; penne large feather (syn. Onychognathus morio).
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)