Short-billed Pigeon / Patagioenas nigrirostris
WBN 
Short-billed Pigeon
SCI Name:
Protonym: Columba nigrirostris Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1859) (1859), Pt(27)3 p.390
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Patagioenas
Taxonomy Code: shbpig
Type Locality: Oaxaca, Mexico.
Author: Sclater, PL
Publish Year: 1860
IUCN Status: Least Concern
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.
nigrirostris
L. niger black; -rostris -billed < rostrum beak.
● ex “Black-jawed Warbler” of Latham 1783 (unident.).
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)
