Bruce’s Green-Pigeon / Treron waalia
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Bruce's Green-Pigeon
SCI Name:
Protonym: Columba waalia Systemat.-Sum.Uebers.Zool.Entd. p.128
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Treron
Taxonomy Code: brgpig1
Type Locality: Abyssinia = Tcherkin, near Lake Tsana, Ethiopia apud Grant, Ibis, 1915, p. 36.
Author: Meyer, FAA
Publish Year: 1793
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.
waalia
Abyssinian name Waalia for Bruce’s Green Pigeon; ex “Waalia Pigeon” of Bruce 1790 (Treron).
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)
