The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Columbigallina
(Columbidae; syn. Columbina Ϯ 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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