White-capped Fruit-Dove

SCI Name:  Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii
Protonym:  Columba Du Petithouarsii Rev.Zool. 3 p.289
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Ptilinopus
Taxonomy Code:  wcfdov1
Type Locality:  Christine, i.e. Tahuata Island, Marquesas Group.
Author:  Neboux
Publish Year:  1840
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.

dupetithouarsii
Adm. Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars (1793-1864) French Navy, commander of La Venus on a round-the-world voyage 1836-1839 (Ptilinopus).

SUBSPECIES

White-capped Fruit-Dove (viridior)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii viridior
viridior
L. viridior, viridioris  greener  < comp. viridis  green  < virere  to be green.

White-capped Fruit-Dove (dupetithouarsii)
SCI Name: Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii dupetithouarsii
dupetithouarsii
Adm. Abel Aubert du Petit-Thouars (1793-1864) French Navy, commander of La Venus on a round-the-world voyage 1836-1839 (Ptilinopus).