Banggai Fruit-Dove / Ptilinopus subgularis

Banggai Fruit-Dove / Ptilinopus subgularis

Banggai Fruit-Dove

SCI Name:  Ptilinopus subgularis
Protonym:  Ptilopus subgularis Abh.Ber.Mus.Dresden 6 no.2 p.4,6,19
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae /
Taxonomy Code:  macfrd3
Type Locality:  Peling and Banggai.
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Publish Year:  1896
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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.

subgularis
L. sub  near to; specific name Columba gularis Quoy & Gaimard, 1830 (= syn. Ramphiculus epius) (Ramphiculus).