Cream-breasted Fruit-Dove / Ptilinopus merrilli
WBN 
Cream-breasted Fruit-Dove
SCI Name:
Protonym: Leucotreron merrilli Philip.J.Sci. 11 sect.D p.269 fig.1
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Ptilinopus
Taxonomy Code: crbfrd1
Type Locality: Sarai Barrio, Paete, Laguna Province, Luzon.
Author: McGregor
Publish Year: 1916
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
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.
merrilli
● Maj. James Cushing Merrill (1853-1902) US Army, surgeon-naturalist, collector in Texas, Montana, Oregon, Oklahoma and Idaho (subsp. Eremophila alpestris, subsp. Melospiza melodia, subsp. Nyctidromus albicollis).
● Elmer Drew Merrill (1876-1956) US botanist, collector in the Philippines 1902-1929 (Ramphiculus).
SUBSPECIES
Cream-breasted Fruit-Dove (faustinoi)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus merrilli faustinoi
faustinoi
Dr Leopoldo Alcarez Faustino (1892-1935) Filipino zoologist (Ramphiculus).
Cream-breasted Fruit-Dove (merrilli)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus merrilli merrilli
merrilli
● Maj. James Cushing Merrill (1853-1902) US Army, surgeon-naturalist, collector in Texas, Montana, Oregon, Oklahoma and Idaho (subsp. Eremophila alpestris, subsp. Melospiza melodia, subsp. Nyctidromus albicollis).
● Elmer Drew Merrill (1876-1956) US botanist, collector in the Philippines 1902-1929 (Ramphiculus).
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)
