Beautiful Fruit-Dove
Beautiful Fruit-Dove
Here the details of the Beautiful Fruit-Dove named bird below:
SCI Name:
Protonym: Columba pulchella Pl.Col. livr.95 pl.564
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Ptilinopus
Taxonomy Code: befdov1
Type Locality: Lobe Bay, New Guinea.
Author: Temminck
Publish Year: 1835
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.
pulchella / pulchellum / pulchellus
L. pulchellus very pretty, beautiful little < dim. pulcher, pulchra beautiful.
● ex “Grimpereau à longue queue du Sénégal” of Brisson 1760 (Cinnyris).
SUBSPECIES
Beautiful Fruit-Dove (pulchellus)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus pulchellus pulchellus
pulchella / pulchellum / pulchellus
L. pulchellus very pretty, beautiful little < dim. pulcher, pulchra beautiful.
● ex “Grimpereau à longue queue du Sénégal” of Brisson 1760 (Cinnyris).
Beautiful Fruit-Dove (decorus)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus pulchellus decorus
decorus
L. decorus beautiful, decorous, elegant < decor, decoris elegance, beauty < decet it is seemly.
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)