Knob-billed Fruit-Dove / Ptilinopus insolitus
Knob-billed Fruit-Dove
SCI Name:
Protonym: Ptilopus insolitus Nederl.Tijdschr.Dierk. 1 p.61 Vogels pl.3 fig.3
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Ptilinopus
Taxonomy Code: kbfdov1
Type Locality: New Caledonia, error = New Ireland.
Author: Schlegel
Publish Year: 1863
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.
insolitus
L. insolitus unusual, strange < in- not; solitus usual < solere to be accustomed.
● “Je ne connais à mon regret de cette espèce, excessivement curieuse, très-belle et nouvelle pour la science qu’un seul individu, malheureusement mutilé, puisqu’on lui a enlevé et les pennes de la queue et les extrémites des grandes rémiges” (Schlegel 1863) (Ptilinopus).
SUBSPECIES
Knob-billed Fruit-Dove (insolitus)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus insolitus insolitus
insolitus
L. insolitus unusual, strange < in- not; solitus usual < solere to be accustomed.
● “Je ne connais à mon regret de cette espèce, excessivement curieuse, très-belle et nouvelle pour la science qu’un seul individu, malheureusement mutilé, puisqu’on lui a enlevé et les pennes de la queue et les extrémites des grandes rémiges” (Schlegel 1863) (Ptilinopus).
Knob-billed Fruit-Dove (inferior)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus insolitus inferior
inferior
L. inferior, inferioris lower, under, junior < comp. inferus lower, below.
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)