The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- NESOENAS
(Columbidae; † Pink Pigeon N. mayeri) Gr. νησος nēsos island (= Mauritius); οινας oinas, οιναδος oinados pigeon; "NESŒNAS. Trocaza, Shell. (nec. Bp.) Ibis, 1883, p. 281. . . .Type. N. mayeri. Nesœnas, Salvad. MS. . . .Type. N. mayeri. Range. Confined to Mauritius." (Salvadori 1893); "Nesœnas Salvadori, 1893, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, p. 327. New name for Trocaza Shelley, 1883, not of Bonaparte, 1854." (JAJ 2021).
Synon. Homopelia, Trocaza.
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