Gray-chested Dove / Leptotila cassinii
WBN 
Gray-chested Dove
SCI Name:
Protonym: Leptoptila cassini Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 19 p.94
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Leptotila
Taxonomy Code: grcdov1
Type Locality: Line of the Panama Railroad.
Author: Lawrence
Publish Year: 1867
IUCN Status: Least Concern
DEFINITIONS
LEPTOTILA
(Columbidae; Ϯ Caribbean Dove L. jamaicensis) Gr. λεπτος leptos slender; πτιλον ptilon feather; "Leptotila, Sw. (fig. 299.b, c. 300.b) First quill suddenly narrowed; the fourth longest. Tarsus lengthened, and much longer than the hallux. All the toes long and slender. Knees naked. America only? P. rufaxilla. Nat. Lib. v. pl. 24." (Swainson 1837); "Leptotila Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 349. Type, by monotypy, P. rufaxilla Nat. Libr., 5, pl. 24 = Peristera rufaxilla Selby (not of Richard and Bernard) = Columba jamaicensis Linné." (Peters 1937, III, 122).
Var. Leoptotila, Leptoptila, Leptophila.
Synon. Aechmoptila, Engyptila, Homoptila.
cassinii
John Cassin (1813-1869) US ornithologist (syn. Archilochus alexandri, syn. Asio flammeus, syn. Branta canadensis minima, Haemorhous, Leptotila, Mitrospingus, syn. Numenius arquata, Peucaea, syn. Phaethornis longirostris cephalus, syn. Ptychoramphus aleuticus, subsp. Pyrrhula pyrrhula, syn. Sterna hirundinacea, syn. Tyrannus vociferans, Vireo) (see cassini).
SUBSPECIES
Gray-chested Dove (cerviniventris)
SCI Name: Leptotila cassinii cerviniventris
cerviniventris
L. cervinus stag-coloured < cervus stag; venter, ventris belly.
Gray-chested Dove (rufinucha)
SCI Name: Leptotila cassinii rufinucha
rufinucha
L. rufus rufous; Med. L. nuchus nape < Arabic nukhā' spinal marrow.
Gray-chested Dove (cassinii)
SCI Name: Leptotila cassinii cassinii
cassinii
John Cassin (1813-1869) US ornithologist (syn. Archilochus alexandri, syn. Asio flammeus, syn. Branta canadensis minima, Haemorhous, Leptotila, Mitrospingus, syn. Numenius arquata, Peucaea, syn. Phaethornis longirostris cephalus, syn. Ptychoramphus aleuticus, subsp. Pyrrhula pyrrhula, syn. Sterna hirundinacea, syn. Tyrannus vociferans, Vireo) (see cassini).
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)
