White-bellied Green-Pigeon

SCI Name:  Treron sieboldii
Protonym:  Columba sieboldii Pl.Col. livr.93 pl.549
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Treron
Taxonomy Code:  whbpig1
Type Locality:  Japan.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1835
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

TRERON
(Columbidae; Ϯ Thick-billed Green Pigeon T. curvirostra) Gr. τρηρων trērōn, τρηρωνος trērōnos  pigeon, dove  < τρεω treō  to flee in fear; "TRÉRON, Treron.  Columba, Linn. Gm. Lath.  Bec un peu robuste, caréné en dessus, droit à la base, crochu vers le bout. — Ailes longues, pointues.  Esp. Columba curvirostra, Gm." (Vieillot 1816); "Treron Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 49. Type, by monotypy, Columba curvirostra Gmelin." (Peters 1937, III, 14).
Var. Theron, Trenon.
Synon. Ancistroa, Butreron, Crocopus, Dendrophaps, Dendrophassa, Osmotreron, Phalacrotreron, Rhamphotreron, Rhombura, Romeris, Sphenocercus, Sphenoena, Sphenotreron, Sphenurus, Toria, Vinago.

sieboldi / sieboldii
Philipp Franz Balthasar Freiherr von Siebold (1796-1866) German doctor in the Dutch service, naturalist, collector in Japan 1823-1829 (syn. Poecile varius, Treron).

SUBSPECIES

White-bellied Green-Pigeon (sieboldii)
SCI Name: Treron sieboldii sieboldii
sieboldi / sieboldii
Philipp Franz Balthasar Freiherr von Siebold (1796-1866) German doctor in the Dutch service, naturalist, collector in Japan 1823-1829 (syn. Poecile varius, Treron).

White-bellied Green-Pigeon (fopingensis)
SCI Name: Treron sieboldii fopingensis
fopingensis
Foping National Nature Reserve, Shaanxi, China.

White-bellied Green-Pigeon (murielae)
SCI Name: Treron sieboldii murielae
murielae
● Muriel Bannerman née Morgan (d. 1945) British naturalist, first wife of ornithologist David Bannerman (syn. Saxicola dacotiae).
● Muriel Helene Ezra née Sassoon (b. 1897) wife of British aviculturalist Alfred Aaron Ezra (subsp. Treron sieboldii).