Maroon-chested Ground Dove

SCI Name:  Paraclaravis mondetoura
Protonym:  Peristera mondetoura Compt.Rend. 42 p.765
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Paraclaravis
Taxonomy Code:  mcgdov1
Type Locality:  Caracas, Venezuela.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1856
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

PARACLARAVIS
(Columbidae; Ϯ Maroon-chested Ground Dove P. mondetoura) Gr. παρα para  near; genus Claravis Oberholser, 1899, ground dove; "The first name applied to the three species currently placed in Claravis was Peristera Swainson, 1827, which has Columba cinerea Temminck, 1811 [now Claravis pretiosa (Ferrari-Pérez, 1886)] as its type species. As pointed out by Oberholser  (1899), the name Peristera Swainson, 1827 is preoccupied by Peristera Rafinesque, 1815 (Gastropoda). Oberholser (1899) proposed Claravis as a replacement name  and this has been in use ever since. No other genus-group names have been proposed for any of these species. The phylogenetic evidence reviewed above indicates that the generic name Claravis should be restricted to C. pretiosa; Claravis thus becomes a monotypic genus. As no name is available for C. mondetoura and C. geoffroyi, we propose a new genus for them.   Paraclaravis, new genus.  Type species. Peristera mondetoura Bonaparte, 1856, currently Claravis mondetoura.  ...  Diagnosis Small (18-24 cm), arboreal or semi-terrestrial doves, similar to Claravis pretiosa, but both sexes of Paraclaravis differing from C. pretiosa in having: (i) lesser upperwing-coverts marked with a single bar formed by spots on a single row of feathers; and (ii) tertials unmarked.  ...  Males of the two species of Paraclaravis differ from male C. pretiosa in two additional characters: (iii) extensive white on distal parts of outer rectrices  (entirely black in C. pretiosa); and (iv) white under tail-coverts (slate-grey in C. pretiosa)  ...  The two species of Paraclaravis differ from all other small ground-doves, except Claravis pretiosa, by a combination of pronounced sexual dimorphism in colouration, upperparts grey in males, tail truncated, bare orbital space small, lores wholly feathered, and wing feathers spotted with extensive markings forming three prominent dark wing bars (Ridgway 1916).   Etymology. The generic name is derived from the Greek para (beside), the Latin clarus (clear, brilliant) and the Latin avis (bird). Its gender is feminine. The name refers to the morphological resemblance of Paraclaravis mondetoura and P. geoffroyi to Claravis pretiosa." (Sangster et al. 2018).

mondetoura
Pauline Louise Jeanne Angélique Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire née Brière de Mondétour (1785-1876) wife of French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire (Paraclaravis).

SUBSPECIES

Maroon-chested Ground Dove (ochoterena)
SCI Name: Paraclaravis mondetoura ochoterena
ochoterena
Dr Isaac Ochoterena Mendieta (1885-1950) Mexican biologist, botanist, educationalist (subsp. Paraclaravis mondetoura).

Maroon-chested Ground Dove (salvini)
SCI Name: Paraclaravis mondetoura salvini
salvini / salvinii
Osbert Salvin (1835-1898) English ornithologist, Curator of Ornithology, Cambridge University 1874-1882, collector (syn. Accipiter erythronemius ventralis, syn. Alaemon alaudipes, syn. Amazilia violiceps, subsp. Amazona autumnalis, Antrostomus, subsp. Basileuterus rufifrons, syn. Certhidea olivacea, subsp. Chlorostilbon canivetii, subsp. Colinus virginianus, syn. Crypturellus variegatus, subsp. Cyphorhinus arada, subsp. Empidonax flavescens, subsp. Eubucco bourcierii, subsp. Eutoxeres aquila, subsp. Geospiza parvula, subsp. Habia fuscicauda, syn. Heliodoxa xanthogonys, subsp. Icterus mesomelas, subsp. Knipolegus poecilurus, subsp. Lampornis amethystinus, Mitu, subsp. Neomorphus geoffroyi, Oneillornis, Pachyptila, subsp. Pachyramphus albogriseus (ex Pachyramphus similis Salvin, 1895), subsp. Paraclaravis mondetoura, subsp. Picumnus exilis, syn. Popelairia conversii, subsp. Sclerurus guatemalensis, subsp. Sicalis olivascens, subsp. Spindalis zena, subsp. Sporophila funerea, Thalassarche, syn. Tinamus major fuscipennis, Tumbezia, subsp. Vireo pallens).

Maroon-chested Ground Dove (umbrina)
SCI Name: Paraclaravis mondetoura umbrina
umbrina
Mod. L. umbrinus  dark, shady, umber-colour  < L. umbra  shade, dark.

Maroon-chested Ground Dove (pulchra)
SCI Name: Paraclaravis mondetoura pulchra
pulchra
L. pulcher, pulchra beautiful.
● ex “Rufous-headed Rail” of Latham, 1824 (Sarothrura).

Maroon-chested Ground Dove (mondetoura)
SCI Name: Paraclaravis mondetoura mondetoura
mondetoura
Pauline Louise Jeanne Angélique Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire née Brière de Mondétour (1785-1876) wife of French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire (Paraclaravis).

Maroon-chested Ground Dove (inca)
SCI Name: Paraclaravis mondetoura inca
inca
Inca, the pre-conquest peoples of Peru and Bolivia (epithet generally given to species described from or found in those countries) (Coeligena, subsp. Geospizopsis unicolor, syn. Griseotyrannus aurantioatrocristatus, Larosterna, syn. Leptopogon taczanowskii, subsp. Paraclaravis mondetoura, syn. Psarocolius viridis (ex “Cassique vert de Cayenne” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 328), subsp. Ramphastos cuvieri, syn. Rupornis magnirostris occiduus, Scardafella (here the epithet aztec (i.e. Mexican) would be more accurate), subsp. Tangara fulvicervix).