Norfolk Ground Dove

Here the details of the Norfolk Ground Dove named bird below:

SCI Name:  Alopecoenas norfolkensis
Protonym:  Columba Norfolciensis Suppl.Ind.Ornith. 1801 p.60
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Alopecoenas
Taxonomy Code:  norgrd1
Type Locality:  Norfolk Island, error = New South Wales, apud Mathews.
Author:  Latham
Publish Year:  1801
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

ALOPECOENAS
(Columbidae; † Wetar Ground Dove A. hoedtii) Gr. αλωπηξ alōpēx, αλωπεκος alōpekos   fox (i.e. fox-coloured); οινας oinas, οιναδος oinados  pigeon; "ALOPECŒNAS, Finsch.  (Finsch, Notes Leyd. Mus. xxi. 1899.)   1. hoedti (Schl.).  (Salvad. Cat. p. 592.)" (Sharpe 1899); "Leptoptila Hoedti Schleg. (Alopecoenas Finsch) von Wetter" (Finsch 1900);  "Alopecœnas Finsch, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. xxii. p. 228, July 1900.  Type (by monotypy): Leptoptila hoedtii Schleg." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 75); "Alopecoenas "Finsch" Sharpe, Hand-list, 1, 1899, p. 90. Type, by monotypy, Alopecoenas hoedti (Schl.) = Leptoptila hoedtii Schlegel." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 137).
Synon. Misophaps, Pampusana, Terricolumba.

norfolcensis / norfolciensis / norfolkensis / norfolkiensis
Norfolk I., Pacific Ocean (named after Mary Howard Duchess of Norfolk (d. 1773)).
● Erroneous TL. Norfolk I. (= New South Wales); ex “Norfolk Pigeon” of Latham 1802 (syn. Columba leucomela).
● Norfolk I.; ex “Long-billed Parrakeet” of Latham 1822 (‡syn. Nestor productus).