Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove

SCI Name:  Ptilinopus iozonus
Protonym:  Ptilonopus iozonus Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt26 no.358 p.186
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Ptilinopus
Taxonomy Code:  obfdov1
Type Locality:  Aru Islands.
Author:  Gray, GR
Publish Year:  1858
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.

iozonus
Gr. ιοζωνος iozōnos purple-banded < ιον ion violet; ζωνη zōnē belt.

SUBSPECIES

Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove (iozonus)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus iozonus iozonus
iozonus
Gr. ιοζωνος iozōnos purple-banded < ιον ion violet; ζωνη zōnē belt.

Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove (humeralis)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus iozonus humeralis
humeralis
Late L. humeralis  of the shoulders  < L. umerus  shoulders.
● ex “Perruche Banks” of Levaillant 1801 (syn. Lathamus discolor).
● ex “Fringilla humeralis” of Lichtenstein MS (Peucaea).
● ex “Waalia Pigeon” of Bruce 1790 (syn. Treron waalia).

Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove (iobiensis)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus iozonus iobiensis
iobiensis
Jobi I. (= Japen), Geelvink Bay, New Guinea.

Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove (pseudohumeralis)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus iozonus pseudohumeralis
pseudohumeralis
Gr. ψευδος pseudos  false; specific name Ptilonopus humeralis Wallace, 1862 (= subsp. Ptilinopus iozonus); "Ptilinopus iozonus pseudohumeralis, new subspecies.  ...  This race differs from humeralis in the generally brighter, more yellowish-green color of the upper- and underparts, and the more pronounced grayish subterminal markings in the lateral tail-feathers seen from above.  ...   This race is of course much more closely related to humeralis than to iozonus of the Aru Islands or finschi" (Rand 1938) (subsp. Ptilinopus iozonus).

Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove (finschi)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus iozonus finschi
finschi
Prof. Dr Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch (1839-1917) German diplomat, ornithologist, collector (Amazona, syn. Apus horus, ‡Chenonetta, syn. Coereba bartholemica, subsp. Dicaeum agile, Euphonia, syn. Gallirallus australis, subsp. Haematopus ostralegus, syn. Laniarius aethiopicus major, syn. Malacocincla abbotti concreta, syn. Muscicapa striata, Oriolus, subsp. Paradisaea minor, syn. Ploceus velatus, Psittacara, subsp. Ptilinopus iozonus, subsp. Pycnopygius ixoides, Scleroptila, syn. Scotornis climacurus nigricans, Stizorhina, syn. Tauraco schuettii, subsp. Trichastoma celebense, syn. Tropicranus albocristatus) (see finschii).