Superb Fruit-Dove

SCI Name:  Ptilinopus superbus
Protonym:  Columba Superba LesPigeons[Knip] p.75 pl.33
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Ptilinopus
Taxonomy Code:  sufdov1
Type Locality:  0-Taiti,'' error = Halmahera.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1809
IUCN Status:  

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.

superba / superbus
L. superbus superb, splendid, magnificent < super above.
● ex “Sougnimbindou” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (Cinnyris).
● ex “Cock Purple-breasted Manakin” of Edwards 1764, and “Cotinga Cordon Bleu” of Levaillant 1801 (syn. Cotinga maculata).
● ex “Merle vert d’Angola” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 561 (syn. Lamprotornis australis).
● ex “Superbe” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 632 (Lophorina).
● ex “Aigle moyen de la Guiane” of Mauduyt de la Varenne 1784, and “Autour Huppé” of Levaillant 1798, pl. 26 (syn. Spizaetus ornatus).
● ex “Bec-de-Fer” of Levaillant 1801, pl. 79 (artefact).

SUBSPECIES

Superb Fruit-Dove (Western)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus superbus temminckii
temmincki / temminckii / temminkii
Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778-1858) Dutch ornithologist (subsp. Accipiter melanoleucus, Aethopyga, syn. Anser erythropus, syn. Arachnothera crassirostris, syn. Ardea sumatrana, Calidris, syn. Calyptorhynchus lathami, syn. Cecropis daurica rufula, syn. Colinus cristatus, Columba artefact (ex Columba auricularis Temminck, 1813), Coracias (ex “Rollier Temminck” of Levaillant 1806), Coracina, syn. Corydon sumatranus (ex Eurylaimus corydon Temminck, 1824), syn. Crax rubra (ex “Red Peruvian Hen” of Albin 1738, and Crax rubra Temminck, 1815), Cursorius, syn. Dendrexetastes rufigula, syn. Ducula perspicillata, syn. Gallus varius x hybrid, syn. Harpactes kasumba, syn. Heliomaster squamosus, syn. Lobotos lobatus, Lyncornis, subsp. Myophonus caeruleus, syn. Nipponia nippon (ex Ibis nippon Temminck, 1835), Orthonyx, Picoides, Picumnus, syn. Prunella montanella, syn. Pterophanes cyanopterus, Ptilinopus, syn. Ramphastos vitellinus ariel, syn. Sittasomus griseicapillus sylviellus (ex Dendrocolaptes sylviellus Temminck, 1821), syn. Synthliboramphus wumisuzume, Tragopan (ex “Chinese Horned Pheasant” of Hardwicke 1831)).

Superb Fruit-Dove (Eastern)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus superbus superbus
superba / superbus
L. superbus superb, splendid, magnificent < super above.
● ex “Sougnimbindou” of Audebert & Vieillot 1802 (Cinnyris).
● ex “Cock Purple-breasted Manakin” of Edwards 1764, and “Cotinga Cordon Bleu” of Levaillant 1801 (syn. Cotinga maculata).
● ex “Merle vert d’Angola” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 561 (syn. Lamprotornis australis).
● ex “Superbe” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 632 (Lophorina).
● ex “Aigle moyen de la Guiane” of Mauduyt de la Varenne 1784, and “Autour Huppé” of Levaillant 1798, pl. 26 (syn. Spizaetus ornatus).
● ex “Bec-de-Fer” of Levaillant 1801, pl. 79 (artefact).