New Britain Bronzewing / Henicophaps foersteri
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New Britain Bronzewing
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Protonym: Henicophaps foersteri Bull.Br.Orn.Club 19 p.28
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Henicophaps
Taxonomy Code: nebbro1
Type Locality: Massawa, New Britain.
Author: Rothschild & Hartert
Publish Year: 1906
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
HENICOPHAPS
(Columbidae; Ϯ New Guinea Bronzewing H. albifrons) Gr. ἑνικος henikos singular, unique; φαψ phaps, φαβος phabos pigeon (cf. genus Chalcophaps Gould, 1854, dove); "HENICOPHAPS ALBIFRONS, G. R. Gr. (Pl. XLIV.) Front white; fuscous-rufous black, tinged with glossy green, on the back and tertials; greater wing-coverts with golden-coppery gloss; abdomen grey fuscous; under tail-coverts rufous. ... The bill is like that of Chalcophaps, but the apical portion occupies rather more than half its length; the basal part of culmen is flattened and rather broad. Hab. Waigiou." (G. Gray 1862); "Henicophaps G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861 (1862), p. 432. Type, by monotypy, Henicophaps albifrons G. R. Gray." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 116).
Synon. Rhynchaenas.
foersteri
Prof. Johann Friedrich Nepomuk Förster (1865-1918) German teacher, botanist, entomologist, collector (syn. Casuarius bennetti, Henicophaps, Melidectes).
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)
