Ptilinopus Leclancheri Bird

English Name:  Black-chinned Fruit-Dove
Latin Name:  Ptilinopus leclancheri
Protonym:  Trerolaema leclancheri Compt.Rend. 41 p.247
Taxonomy:  Columbiformes / Columbidae / Ptilinopus
Taxonomy Code:  bcfdov1
Type Locality:  New Guinea, error = Philippine Islands.
Author:  Bonaparte
Publish Year:  1855
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.

leclancheri / leclancherii
Charles René Augustin Léclancher (1804-1857) French surgeon-naturalist, explorer (syn. Dicaeum celebicum, Passerina, Ramphiculus).

SUBSPECIES

Black-chinned Fruit-Dove (longialis)
Latin Name: Ptilinopus leclancheri longialis
longialis
L. longus  long; alis  winged  < ala  wing.

Black-chinned Fruit-Dove (leclancheri)
Latin Name: Ptilinopus leclancheri leclancheri
leclancheri / leclancherii
Charles René Augustin Léclancher (1804-1857) French surgeon-naturalist, explorer (syn. Dicaeum celebicum, Passerina, Ramphiculus).

Black-chinned Fruit-Dove (gironieri)
Latin Name: Ptilinopus leclancheri gironieri
gironieri / gironnierii
Dr Paul Proust de la Gironnière (1797-1862) French physician resident in the Philippines 1833-1861, founder of the town of Jalajala (syn. Microhierax erythrogenys, syn. Psittacula calthorpae, subsp. Ramphiculus leclancheri).