Large Green-Pigeon / Treron capellei

Large Green-Pigeon / Treron capellei

Large Green-Pigeon

SCI Name:  Treron capellei
Protonym:  Columba capellei Pl.Col. livr.24 pl.143
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae /
Taxonomy Code:  lagpig1
Type Locality:  Java.
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Publish Year:  1822
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DEFINITIONS

TRERON
(Columbidae; Ϯ Thick-billed Green Pigeon T. curvirostra) Gr. τρηρων trērōn, τρηρωνος trērōnos  pigeon, dove  < τρεω treō  to flee in fear; "TRÉRON, Treron.  Columba, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec un peu robuste, caréné en dessus, droit à la base, crochu vers le bout. — Ailes longues, pointues.  Esp. Columba curvirostra, Gm." (Vieillot 1816); "Treron Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 49. Type, by monotypy, Columba curvirostra Gmelin." (Peters 1937, III, 14).
Var. Theron, Trenon.
Synon. Ancistroa, Butreron, Crocopus, Dendrophaps, Dendrophassa, Osmotreron, Phalacrotreron, Rhamphotreron, Rhombura, Romeris, Sphenocercus, Sphenoena, Sphenotreron, Sphenurus, Toria, Vinago.

capellei
Godert Alexander Gerard Philip Baron van der Capellen (1778-1848) Dutch politician, diplomat, Commissioner-Gen./Gov.-Gen. of the Dutch East Indies 1816-1826 (Treron).