Tanna Fruit-Dove / Ptilinopus tannensis

Tanna Fruit-Dove / Ptilinopus tannensis

Tanna Fruit-Dove

SCI Name:  Ptilinopus tannensis
Protonym:  Columba tannensis IndexOrn. 2 p.600
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae /
Taxonomy Code:  tafdov1
Type Locality:  Tanna Island, New Hebrides.
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Publish Year:  1790
IUCN Status:  

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.

tannaensis / tannensis
Tanna I., New Hebrides (= Vanuatu).
● ex “Hook-billed Pigeon, var.” of Latham 1783 (Ptilinopus).