Ring-tailed Pigeon / Patagioenas caribaea
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Ring-tailed Pigeon
SCI Name:
Protonym: Columba caribaea Beytr.Gesch.Vogel p.30
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Patagioenas
Taxonomy Code: ritpig
Type Locality: Caribbean Islands, i.e. = Jamaica, ex Brisson.
Author: von Jacquin
Publish Year: 1784
IUCN Status: Vulnerable
DEFINITIONS
PATAGIOENAS
(Columbidae; Ϯ White-crowned Pigeon P. leucocephala) Gr. παταγη patagē clatter, clap; οινας oinas, οιναδος oinados pigeon; "Genera et Species typicae. ... γ. *Patagioenas Rchb. leucocephala (Col. — L. Gm.) R. Ic. Av. t. 223. ic. 1257—58. t. 255. ic. 2863—64." (Reichenbach 1852); "Patagioenas Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., p. xxv, 1852—type, by [original designation and] monotypy, Columba leucocephala Linnaeus." (Hellmayr & Conover 1942, XIII, 430). This genus incorporates the New World pigeons formerly included in Columba.
Var. Patagiaenas.
Synon. Chloroenas, Crossophthalmus, Lepidoenas, Notioenas, Oenoenas, Picazuros.
caribaea / caribaearum / caribaeus / caribbaea / caribbaeus / caribbeus / caribboeus / caribeus / cariboea
Caribbean Sea (named after the Carib, an Amerindian people of the Lesser Antilles and northern South America).
● Antilles (= Guadeloupe); ex “Esmerillon Gry-Gry” of Dutertre 1667, and “Esmerillon des Antilles” of Brisson 1760 (subsp. Falco sparverius).
● Caribbean Is.; ex “Pigeon à queue annelée de la Jamaïque” of Brisson 1760 (Patagioenas).
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)
