Sulu Bleeding-heart / Gallicolumba menagei
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Sulu Bleeding-heart
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Protonym: Phlogoenas menagei Occ.Pap.MinnesotaAcad.Nat.Sci. 1 no.1 p.10
Taxonomy: Columbiformes / Columbidae / Gallicolumba
Taxonomy Code: subhea1
Type Locality: Tawi Tawi.
Author: Bourns & Worcester
Publish Year: 1894
IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
DEFINITIONS
GALLICOLUMBA
(Columbidae; Ϯ Luzon Bleeding-heart G. luzonica) Portmanteau of genera Gallus Brisson, 1760, fowl, and Columba Linnaeus, 1758, pigeon; "Die Gattung Hühnertaube, Gallicolumba s. Columbi-Gallina: Lauf länger, dicker, Schnabel schlank, biegsam; leben gesellig und suchen die Nahrung am Boden wie die Hühner, sind auch meist so groß. Die blutfleckige Taube, Gallicolumba cruenta (Taf. 67 Fig. 14), auf den Philippinen, zeichnet sich vorzüglich durch einen blutfarbigen Fleck auf der Brust aus." (Heck 1849); "Gallicolumba Heck, Bilder-Atlas zum Conversations-Lexikon, 1, 1849, p. 434. Type, by monotypy, Gallicolumba cruenta [(Gmelin)] = Columba luzonica Scopoli." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 133).
Synon. Diopezus, Pampusanna, Plegoenas.
menagei
Louis Francois Menage (1850-1924) US philanthropist who financed an expedition to the Philippines 1890-1893, real-estate developer whose company collapsed in 1893 and who fled, accused of embezzlement, to Guatemala and Mexico (subsp. Batrachostomus septimus, Dicrurus, ‡Gallicolumba, syn. Picoides maculatus).
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)
