Red-bellied Fruit-Dove

SCI Name:  Ptilinopus greyi
Protonym:  Ptilinopus greyii Iconogr.Pig. pl.20
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Ptilinopus
Taxonomy Code:  rbfdov1
Type Locality:  Isle of Pines and Loyalty Islands.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1857
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.

greyi / greyii
● Capt. Sir George Grey (1812-1898) British Army, explorer in Australia, Lt.-Gov. of South Australia 1841-1845, Gov. of New Zealand 1846-1854, 1861-1867, Gov. and C-i-C of Cape Colony 1855-1859, Prime Minister of New Zealand 1877-1879 (syn. Egretta sacra, subsp. Gallirallus australis, Ptilinopus, syn. Strigops habroptilus).
● Sir Edward Grey, 3^rd Bt. and Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933) British statesman, naturalist, writer (syn. Poeoptera stuhlmanni).