The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Coelotreron
(Columbidae; syn. Columba † Stock Dove C. oenas) Gr. κοιλος koilos hollow (i.e. treehole-nesting); τρηρων trērōn, τρηρωνος trērōnos pigeon < τρεω treō to flee in fear; "Genus Coelotreron Heine [Palumboena (!) Bp. 1854]" (Heine 1890); "Coelotreron Heine, in Heine and Reichenow, 1890, Nomencl. Musei Heineani Ornith., p. 275. New name for Palumboena Bonaparte, 1854, considered barbarous because of its hybrid Latin and Greek construction." (JAJ 2020).
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