Squatter Pigeon

SCI Name:  Geophaps scripta
Protonym:  Columba scripta Trans.Linn.Soc.London(1), 13 p.127
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Geophaps
Taxonomy Code:  squpig1
Type Locality:  Shoalwater Bay, lat. 22° S., Queensland.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1821
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

GEOPHAPS
(Columbidae; Ϯ Squatter Pigeon G. scripta) Gr. γεω- geō-  ground-  <  γη gē  earth; φαψ phaps, φαβος phabos  pigeon; "[APPENDIX] 75.  ...  Phaps, near this genus add  GEOPHAPS, Gould (1842).  G. scripta (Temm.), Gould." (G. Gray 1842); "Mr. Gould next instituted a new genus among the Columbidæ, under the appellation of Genus GEOPHAPS  ...  Rostrum perbreve et robustum. Oculi cute denudata circumdati. Alæ perbreves et rotundatæ, apicibus latis. Tarsi mediocres digitis longiores. Digitus internus paululum cæteris longior." (Gould 1842); "Geophaps "Gould" G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., ed. 2, App., 1 Mar., 1842, p. 12.¹  Type, by original designation, G. scripta (Temm.) = Columba scripta Temminck.  ...   ¹ The name was first published by Gould in Bds. Austr., pt. 7, 1 June, 1842." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 119).
Synon. Lophophaps, Terraphaps.

scripta
L. scriptus drawn, written < scribere to write.

SUBSPECIES

Squatter Pigeon (peninsulae)
SCI Name: Geophaps scripta peninsulae
peninsulae
L. paeninsulae or peninsulae  peninsulas  < paeninsula or peninsula  peninsula  < paene  nearly, almost; insula  island.
● Indian peninsula, southern India (subsp. Accipiter trivirgatus).
● Malay peninsula, Malaysia/Thailand (Siam) (Alcedo, syn. Garrulax leucolophus diardi, syn. Garrulax lugubris, Trochalopteron).
● Florida, USA (subsp. Ammospiza maritima).
● Baja California, Mexico (subsp. Cardinalis sinuata, subsp. Contopus sordidulus).
● Kamchatka, Far East Region, Russia (syn. Cuculus saturatus).
● Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia (syn. Fregata minor palmerstoni, subsp. Geophaps scripta, subsp. Pachycephala griseiceps).
● Korea (syn. Troglodytes troglodytes dauricus).

Squatter Pigeon (scripta)
SCI Name: Geophaps scripta scripta
scripta
L. scriptus drawn, written < scribere to write.