White-bibbed Ground Dove

SCI Name:  Alopecoenas jobiensis
Protonym:  Phlegoenas jobiensis Mitt.Zool.Mus.Dresden Heft1 p.10
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Alopecoenas
Taxonomy Code:  wbgdov1
Type Locality:  Ansus, Island of Jobi.
Author:  Meyer, AB
Publish Year:  1875
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

ALOPECOENAS
(Columbidae; † Wetar Ground Dove A. hoedtii) Gr. αλωπηξ alōpēx, αλωπεκος alōpekos   fox (i.e. fox-coloured); οινας oinas, οιναδος oinados  pigeon; "ALOPECŒNAS, Finsch.  (Finsch, Notes Leyd. Mus. xxi. 1899.)   1. hoedti (Schl.).  (Salvad. Cat. p. 592.)" (Sharpe 1899); "Leptoptila Hoedti Schleg. (Alopecoenas Finsch) von Wetter" (Finsch 1900);  "Alopecœnas Finsch, Notes Leyden Mus. vol. xxii. p. 228, July 1900.  Type (by monotypy): Leptoptila hoedtii Schleg." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 75); "Alopecoenas "Finsch" Sharpe, Hand-list, 1, 1899, p. 90. Type, by monotypy, Alopecoenas hoedti (Schl.) = Leptoptila hoedtii Schlegel." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 137).
Synon. Misophaps, Pampusana, Terricolumba.

jobiensis
Jobi I. (= Japen), Geelvink Bay, New Guinea.
● Erroneous TL. Jobi I. (= mainland of New Guinea, east of Geelvink Bay) (Ailuroedus).

SUBSPECIES

White-bibbed Ground Dove (jobiensis)
SCI Name: Alopecoenas jobiensis jobiensis
jobiensis
Jobi I. (= Japen), Geelvink Bay, New Guinea.
● Erroneous TL. Jobi I. (= mainland of New Guinea, east of Geelvink Bay) (Ailuroedus).

White-bibbed Ground Dove (chalconotus)
SCI Name: Alopecoenas jobiensis chalconotus
chalconota / chalconotus
Gr. χαλκονωτος khalkonōtos  bronze-backed  < χαλκος khalkos  bronze; -νωτος -nōtos  -backed  < νωτον nōton back.