The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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Stictoenas

(Columbidae; syn. Columba African Olive Pigeon C. arquatrix) Gr. στικτος stiktos  spotted  < στιζω stizō to tattoo; οινας oinas, οιναδος oinados  pigeon; "Genera et Species typicae.   ...   c. *Stictoenas RCHB.  arquatrix (Col. —  L.)  Ic. Av. t. 221. ic. 1251— 52 et 1250." (Reichenbach 1853); "Stictoenas Reichenbach, 1853, Avium Systema Naturale, p. XXV.  Type, by original designation, Columba arquatrix L., i.e. Temminck, 1808." (JAJ 2021).
Var. Stictaenas, Strictoenas.


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