In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the Madagascar green pigeon in his Ornithologie based on specimen that he had examined. He used the French name Le pigeon ramier verd de Madagascar and the Latin Palumbus viridis madagascariensis.[2] The species was also illustrated in Edme-Louis Daubenton's Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle.[3] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.[4] When the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus revised his Mantissa Plantarum in 1771 he added an appendix which included a description of the Madagascar green pigeon. He coined the binomial nameColumba australis and cited the earlier authors.[5] The specific epithetaustralis is the Latin word for "southern".[6] The species is now placed in the genusTreron that was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot.[7][8]
T. a. australis (Linnaeus, 1771) – east Madagascar
References
^BirdLife International (2016). "Treron australis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22727848A94963482. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22727848A94963482.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
^Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés (in French and Latin). Vol. 1. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. pp. 142–143, Plate 14 fig 2. The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen.
^Allen, J.A. (1910). "Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 28: 317–335. hdl:2246/678.
^Linnaeus, Carl (1771). "Regni Animalis Appendix. Aves". Mantissa Plantarum Altera (in Latin). Holmiae [Stockholm]: Laurentius Salvii. p. 526.
^Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^Vieillot, Louis Pierre (1816). Analyse d'une Nouvelle Ornithologie Élémentaire (in French). Paris: Deterville/self. p. 49.
^ a bGill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 March 2020.