Reunion Pigeon / Nesoenas duboisi
WBN Reunion Pigeon
SCI Name:
Protonym: Nesoenas duboisi ExtinctBirds p.166
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Nesoenas
Taxonomy Code: reupig1
Type Locality:
Author: Rothschild
Publish Year: 1907
IUCN Status: Extinct
DEFINITIONS
NESOENAS
(Columbidae; Ϯ Pink Pigeon N. mayeri) Gr. νησος nēsos island (= Mauritius); οινας oinas, οιναδος oinados pigeon; "NESŒNAS. Trocaza, Shell. (nec. Bp.) Ibis, 1883, p. 281. . . .Type. N. mayeri. Nesœnas, Salvad. MS. . . .Type. N. mayeri. Range. Confined to Mauritius." (Salvadori 1893).
Synon. Homopelia, Trocaza.
duboisi
● Dr Alphonse Joseph Charles Dubois (1839-1921) Belgian zoologist (subsp. Bycanistes sharpii, subsp. Ploceus melanocephalus).
● Henri Loyseau Sieur Dubois (fl. 1673) French secretary and quartermaster to Lt.-Gen. Charles de La Chaussée Seigneur de Champmargou, in Madagascar and the Mascarenes 1669-1672 (Mark Brown in litt.) (‡Falco, ‡syn. Mascarinus mascarin, ‡Nesoenas, ‡Nycticorax).
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)
