Mindoro Bleeding-heart / Gallicolumba platenae
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Mindoro Bleeding-heart
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Protonym: Phlegoenas platenae Cat.BirdsBrit.Mus. 21 p.583,588
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Gallicolumba
Taxonomy Code: mibhea2
Type Locality: Mindoro.
Author: Salvadori
Publish Year: 1893
IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
DEFINITIONS
GALLICOLUMBA
(Columbidae; Ϯ Luzon Bleeding-heart G. luzonica) Portmanteau of genera Gallus Brisson, 1760, fowl, and Columba Linnaeus, 1758, pigeon; "Die Gattung Hühnertaube, Gallicolumba s. Columbi-Gallina: Lauf länger, dicker, Schnabel schlank, biegsam; leben gesellig und suchen die Nahrung am Boden wie die Hühner, sind auch meist so groß. Die blutfleckige Taube, Gallicolumba cruenta (Taf. 67 Fig. 14), auf den Philippinen, zeichnet sich vorzüglich durch einen blutfarbigen Fleck auf der Brust aus." (Heck 1849); "Gallicolumba Heck, Bilder-Atlas zum Conversations-Lexikon, 1, 1849, p. 434. Type, by monotypy, Gallicolumba cruenta [(Gmelin)] = Columba luzonica Scopoli." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 133).
Synon. Diopezus, Pampusanna, Plegoenas.
platenae / plateni
● Dr Carl Constantin Platen (1843-1899) German physician based at Amoy, China, collector in the East Indies (Aramidopsis, subsp. Cinnyris jugularis, Dasycrotapha, syn. Ninox mindorensis, subsp. Pachycephala cinerea, Prionochilus).
● Dr Margarete Platen née Geisler (fl. 1894) wife of German physician Dr Carl C. Platen (syn. Ceyx melanurus mindanensis, Ficedula, Gallicolumba, Prioniturus, Thapsinillas).
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)
