The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Xenotreron
(Columbidae; syn. Ramphiculus † Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove R. occipitalis incognitus) Gr. ξενος xenos stranger; τρηρων trērōn, τρηρωνος trērōnos pigeon < τρεω treō to flee in fear; "60. XENOTRERON INCOGNITA. Ptilopus? incognita, Tweeddale, Ann. & Mag. N. H. ser. 4, vol. xx. p. 538 (December 1, 1877). ... The only example obtained by Mr. Everett is that of an immature female" (Tweeddale 1878); "Xenotreron Tweeddale, 1878, Proc. Zool. Soc. London (1877), p. 832. Type, by monotypy, Ptilopus incognita Tweeddale, 1877." (JAJ 2021).
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