Silver-capped Fruit-Dove

SCI Name:  Ptilinopus richardsii
Protonym:  Ptilopus richardsii Nature 25 p.282
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Ptilinopus
Taxonomy Code:  scfdov1
Type Locality:  Solomon Islands = Ugi Island, ex Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 6, Mar., 1882, p. 722.
Author:  Ramsay, EP
Publish Year:  1882
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.

richardsi / richardsii
• Adm. Sir George Henry Richards (1820-1896) Royal Navy, hydrographer, donor, and his son, Lt. later Rear-Adm. George Edward Richards (1852-1927) Royal Navy, surveyor, collector in the East Indies (subsp. Ceyx pusillus, subsp. Dryocopus javensis, syn. Ducula rubricera rufigula, Monarcha, Ptilinopus).
• Guy Richards (1905-1979) US ornithologist, journalist, explorer (Martin Schneider in litt.) (Pachycephala).

SUBSPECIES

Silver-capped Fruit-Dove (richardsii)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus richardsii richardsii
richardsi / richardsii
• Adm. Sir George Henry Richards (1820-1896) Royal Navy, hydrographer, donor, and his son, Lt. later Rear-Adm. George Edward Richards (1852-1927) Royal Navy, surveyor, collector in the East Indies (subsp. Ceyx pusillus, subsp. Dryocopus javensis, syn. Ducula rubricera rufigula, Monarcha, Ptilinopus).
• Guy Richards (1905-1979) US ornithologist, journalist, explorer (Martin Schneider in litt.) (Pachycephala).

Silver-capped Fruit-Dove (cyanopterus)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus richardsii cyanopterus
cyanopterus
Gr. κυανοπτερος kuanopteros  blue-winged, dark-winged  < κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; -πτερος -pteros  -winged  < πτερον pteron  wing.
● ex “Petite perruche du Cap de Bonne Espérance” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 455, fig. 1, and “Perruche aux ailes bleues” of de Buffon 1770-1783 (syn. Forpus passerinus).