The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Lithoenas

(Columbidae; syn. Columba Rock Dove C. livia) Gr. λιθος lithos  stone; οινας oinas, οιναδος oinados  pigeon; "Genera et Species typicae.  ...  b. α. *Lithoenas Rchb.  livia (Col. — L.) R.   Ic. Av. t. 221. ic. 1247—49." (Reichenbach 1853); "Lithoenas Reichenbach,1853, Avium Systema Naturale, p. XXV.  Type, by original designation, Columba livia L., i.e. Gmelin, 1789." (JAJ 2020).
Var. Lithaenas.


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