Thick-billed Green-Pigeon

SCI Name:  Treron curvirostra
Protonym:  Columba curvirostra Syst.Nat. 1 pt2 p.777
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Treron
Taxonomy Code:  thbpig1
Type Locality:  Tanna Island, New Hebrides, error, restricted to the Malay Peninsula by Oberholser, Smiths. Misc. Coll., 60, 1912, no. 7, p. 3, note; further restricted by him to Malacca,'' Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci., 14, 1924, p. 297, note; according to Chasen and Kloss, Journ. Siam Soc, Nat. Hist, suppl., 7, 1928, p. 155, the type locality is Rawang, Selangor.
Author:  Gmelin, JF
Publish Year:  1789
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

curvirostra / curvirostre / curvirostris
L. curvus  curved, bent; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Sirli du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Certhilauda).
● "96. LOXIA.  ...  Curvirostra.  1. L. rostro forficato. Fn. svec. 177.  Loxia. Gesn. av. 592. Aldr. orn. l. 12. c. 47. Charl. onom. 68. t. 68. Will. orn. 181. t. 44. Raj. av. 86. Alb. orn. I. p. 58. t. 61. Frisch. av. 2. t. 11. f. 3. 4.  Habitat in Europæ Abietis, strobilos enucleans, at non in ipsa arbore, disseminator Abietis rostro singulari." (Linnaeus 1758) (Loxia).
● ex “Malkoha Rouverdin” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 225 (Phaenicophaeus).
● ex "Hook-billed Pigeon" of Latham 1783 (Treron).
● ex “Loggerhead” of Sloane 1725, and “Grande Sitelle à bec crochu” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (?syn. Tyrannus caudifasciatus).
● ex “Collurio madagascariensis” of Brisson 1760 (Vanga).

Curvirostra
(Fringillidae; syn. Loxia † Red Crossbill L. curvirostra) L. curvus  curved, bent; rostrum  beak, bill (cf. specific name Loxia curvirostra Linnaeus, 1758); "eine besondere Art, die ich den mittlern Kreuzschnabel, Crucirostra *) media nennen möchte, ausmachen.  ...  *) So bitte ich künftig anstatt Curvirostra zu lesen, sowohl in dem Beiträgen, als auch im Lehrbuche." (Brehm 1827); "Curvirostra Brehm, Ornis, 3, p. [78,] 85 [not found on this page], 1827—type, by tautonymy, Loxia curvirostra Linnaeus." (Hellmayr, 1938, Cat. Birds Americas, Pt. XI, p. 302).

SUBSPECIES

Thick-billed Green-Pigeon (Thick-billed)
SCI Name: Treron curvirostra curvirostra
curvirostra / curvirostre / curvirostris
L. curvus  curved, bent; -rostris  -billed  < rostrum  beak.
● ex “Sirli du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (Certhilauda).
● "96. LOXIA.  ...  Curvirostra.  1. L. rostro forficato. Fn. svec. 177.  Loxia. Gesn. av. 592. Aldr. orn. l. 12. c. 47. Charl. onom. 68. t. 68. Will. orn. 181. t. 44. Raj. av. 86. Alb. orn. I. p. 58. t. 61. Frisch. av. 2. t. 11. f. 3. 4.  Habitat in Europæ Abietis, strobilos enucleans, at non in ipsa arbore, disseminator Abietis rostro singulari." (Linnaeus 1758) (Loxia).
● ex “Malkoha Rouverdin” of Levaillant 1807, pl. 225 (Phaenicophaeus).
● ex "Hook-billed Pigeon" of Latham 1783 (Treron).
● ex “Loggerhead” of Sloane 1725, and “Grande Sitelle à bec crochu” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (?syn. Tyrannus caudifasciatus).
● ex “Collurio madagascariensis” of Brisson 1760 (Vanga).

Thick-billed Green-Pigeon (Barusan)
SCI Name: Treron curvirostra hypothapsinus
hypothapsina / hypothapsinus
Gr. ὑπο hupo beneath; θαψινος thapsinos yellow.