Rodrigues Blue-Pigeon

Here the details of the Rodrigues Blue-Pigeon named bird below:

SCI Name:  Alectroenas payandeei
Protonym:  Alectroenas payandeei Zootaxa 3124 1-62
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Alectroenas
Taxonomy Code:  rodblp1
Type Locality:  
Author:  Hume
Publish Year:  2011
IUCN Status:  Extinct

DEFINITIONS

ALECTROENAS
(Columbidae; Ϯ Mauritius Blue Pigeon A. nitidissima) Gr. αλεκτρυων alektruōn, αλεκτρυονος alektruonos  cockerel; οινας oinas, οιναδος oinados  pigeon; "HACKLED P[IGEON] ...  the feathers of the head, neck, and breast, are long, narrow, and pointed, and of a singular construction, appearing as a polished surface, in the same manner as the appendices of the wing feathers of the Bohemian Chatterer, or Wild Indian Cock: round the eye is a naked deep red skin" (Latham 1783); "*ALECTRŒNAS, n.  Columba, Lath.  Colomgalles, Less.   A. Franciæ, (Lath.) n.  Levaill. Ois. d'Afr., pl. 267." (G. Gray 1840); "Alectrœnas G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 58. Type, by original designation, A. Franciae (Lath.) = Columba franciae Gmelin = Columba nitidissima Scopoli." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 40).   
Var. Alectraenas.   
Synon. Chlamydoena, Erythraena, Erythrotreron, Furningus.

payandeei
Richard Payandee (fl. 2005) botanist on Rodrigues (Alectroenas).