Pink Pigeon

Pink Pigeon / Nesoenas mayeri

Pink Pigeon

Here the details of the Pink Pigeon named bird below:

SCI Name:  Nesoenas mayeri
Protonym:  Columba Mayeri LesPigeons[Knip].ed.2 ed.2, 2 p.113 pl.60
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae /
Taxonomy Code:  pinpig2
Type Locality:  Mauritius.
Author:  
Publish Year:  1843
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

NESOENAS
(Columbidae; Ϯ Pink Pigeon N. mayeri) Gr. νησος nēsos  island (= Mauritius); οινας oinas, οιναδος oinados  pigeon; "NESŒNAS.  Trocaza, Shell. (nec. Bp.) Ibis, 1883, p. 281. . . .Type. N. mayeri.   Nesœnas, Salvad. MS. . . .Type. N. mayeri.   Range. Confined to Mauritius." (Salvadori 1893).
Synon. Homopelia, Trocaza.

mayeri
● Frederick William Shaw Mayer (1899-1989) Australian ornithologist, aviculturalist, collector (Astrapia, syn. Xanthotis flaviventer).
●  Gustave Mayer (fl. 1832) collector on Mauritius (Martin Schneider in litt.) (Nesoenas).