The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Columbigallina

(Columbidaesyn. Columbina Ï® Common Ground Dove C. passerina) L. columba  dove; gallina  hen; "I. Fam. Columbidae Leach. Columba Lin.  ...  Columbigallina Vaill.: Col. passerina Lin. u. a." (Boie 1826); "Columbigallina Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, col. 977. Type, by monotypy, Columba passerina Linné.   ...   Replaces Chamaepelia Swainson 1827, of Sharpe's Hand-list.  For many years it was believed that Columbigallina Boie was preoccupied by Columbigallina Oken 1817; the latter however is a nomen nudum and hence does not affect Boie's name." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 105).


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