Flores Green-Pigeon / Treron floris

Flores Green-Pigeon / Treron floris

Flores Green-Pigeon

SCI Name:  Treron floris
Protonym:  Treron floris Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1863) (1863), Pt3 p.496
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae /
Taxonomy Code:  flgpig1
Type Locality:  Flores and Solor; the type is from Flores.
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Publish Year:  1864
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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.

floris
Flores, Lesser Sundas, Dutch East Indies (= Indonesia) (cf. L. flos, floris flower).