Crimson-crowned Fruit-Dove / Ptilinopus porphyraceus

Crimson-crowned Fruit-Dove / Ptilinopus porphyraceus

Crimson-crowned Fruit-Dove

SCI Name:  Ptilinopus porphyraceus
Protonym:  Columba porphyracca Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 13 p.130
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae /
Taxonomy Code:  ccfdov1
Type Locality:  Name for the bird figured and described in Knip''s, Les Pigeons, les colombes, pi. 35 as ''Colombe kurukuru variete.'' Tongatabu and Ulieta and also Timor; the two latter localities erroneous.
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Publish Year:  1821
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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.

porphyracea / porphyraceus
Mod. L. porphyraceus purple < Gr. πορφυρεος porphureos purple (can also mean dark-red, bright-red, bloody, rosy, flushed).
● ex “Purple-crowned Pigeon” (part) of Latham 1783, and “Colombe kurukuru variété” of Temminck 1811 (Ptilinopus).

SUBSPECIES

Crimson-crowned Fruit-Dove (Tongan)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus porphyraceus porphyraceus
porphyracea / porphyraceus
Mod. L. porphyraceus purple < Gr. πορφυρεος porphureos purple (can also mean dark-red, bright-red, bloody, rosy, flushed).
● ex “Purple-crowned Pigeon” (part) of Latham 1783, and “Colombe kurukuru variété” of Temminck 1811 (Ptilinopus).

Crimson-crowned Fruit-Dove (Samoan)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus porphyraceus fasciatus
fasciatum / fasciatus
Late L. fasciatus banded  < L. fascia  band, stripe.
● ex “Calao Longibande” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 233 (Lophoceros).
● ex “Gobe-mouche à poitrine tachetée de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 574, fig. 3 (Myiophobus).
● ex “Ynambuí” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 327 (syn. Nothura maculosa).
● ex “Merle des Moluques” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 257 (syn. Pitta moluccensis).
● ex “Gélinotte des Indes” of Sonnerat 1782 (syn. Pterocles indicus).