Black-backed Fruit-Dove

SCI Name:  Ptilinopus cinctus
Protonym:  Columba Cincta LesPigeons[Knip] p.58 pl.23
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Ptilinopus
Taxonomy Code:  bbfdov1
Type Locality:  'Asie australe'' = Timor.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1809
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

cinctus
L. cinctus girdled, wreathed, banded < cingere to encircle.
● ex “Mésange à ceinture blanche” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Poecile).

SUBSPECIES

Black-backed Fruit-Dove (baliensis)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus cinctus baliensis
baliense / baliensis
Bali, Indonesia.

Black-backed Fruit-Dove (albocinctus)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus cinctus albocinctus
albocincta / albocinctus
L. albus white; cinctus banded, girdled < cingere to encircle.

Black-backed Fruit-Dove (everetti)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus cinctus everetti
everetti / everettii
Alfred Hart Everett (1848-1898) English administrator in Sarawak 1872-1890, naturalist, collector in the Philippines and East Indies (Arachnothera, syn. Bradypterus castaneus, subsp. Cacomantis vaiolosus, subsp. Cyornis concretus, Dicaeum, syn. Dicaeum hypoleucum pontifex, Dinopium, syn. Ducula pickeringii, subsp. Edolisoma mindanense, syn. Eudynamys orientalis picatus, syn. Gerygone inornata, subsp. Horornis flavolivaceus, Hypsipetes, subsp. Lonchura leucogastra, subsp. Mixornis bornensis, syn. Ninox spilocephala reyi, Otus, subsp. Pachycephala fulvotincta, subsp. Phyllergates cucullatus, subsp. Phylloscopus poliocephalus, subsp. Pnoepyga pusilla, subsp. Ptilinopus cinctus, Rhyticeros, syn. Sasia abnormis, Symposiachrus, Tanygnathus, Tesia, subsp. Treron axillaris, Turnix, syn. Tyto alba delicatula, Yuhina, Zoothera, Zosterops).

Black-backed Fruit-Dove (cinctus)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus cinctus cinctus
cinctus
L. cinctus girdled, wreathed, banded < cingere to encircle.
● ex “Mésange à ceinture blanche” of de Buffon 1770-1785 (Poecile).

Black-backed Fruit-Dove (lettiensis)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus cinctus lettiensis
lettiensis
Letti or Lettie I., Lesser Sunda Is., Dutch East Indies / Leti I., Indonesia.

Black-backed Fruit-Dove (ottonis)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus cinctus ottonis
ottonis
● Otto Garlepp (1864-1959) German collector in Peru 1895-1912 (Asthenes, subsp. Phylloscartes ophthalmicus, Pogonotriccus).
● Prof. Dr Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (1839-1917) German diplomat, colonial administrator, ornithologist, collector (subsp. Ptilinopus cinctus).