type species of Geotrygon Gosse
Has anyone seen the paper?
Geotrygon Gosse 1847 [
OD]
The originally included nominal species are
Geotrygon sylvatica Gosse 1847 and
Geotrygon montana =
Columba montana Linn. 1758 (with "
C. martinica Temm." =
C. martinica Linn. 1766
sensu Temminck, cited as a synonym). No original type fixation, a subsequent designation is needed.
- H&M4 recognised a type fixation by subsequent designation of Reichenbach 1853 [
here], of "
Columba cristata Temminck 1809" (preoccupied name; now in the synonymy of
Geotrygon versicolor (Lafresnaye 1846)). Actually, Reichenbach designated
Col. cristata Lath. (which is [
this] =
C. cristata Gmelin 1789 [
OD], now in the synonymy of
Rollulus rouloul (Scopoli 1786) (!)), although he added references to his figures 2482-3 [
here] and 2599 [
here], which (I think...) show the taxonomic species that Gosse had called
Geotrygon sylvatica. Anyway, as there is no such name cited in the OD, no "
Columba cristata" is eligible to become the type species, and this designation is invalid.
- Gray 1855 [
here] designated
Columba cristata Temminck. Invalid again.
- Bonaparte 1855, in
Coup d'oeil sur l'ordre des pigeons, originally published in the
C R Hebd Séan Acad Sci Paris [
here], stated under the 8th and last species that he included in the genus that it was the type, but he did not cite any available name for it. Invalid.
- In the separates of the same work [
here], Bonaparte revised this text extensively, moved this particular species in first position, stated that Temminck had named it
Col. cristata, and that it was the type. Invalid again.
- Salvadori 1893 includes a potentially valid fixation: he again designated
Geotrygon cristata as the type of the genus [
here]
but, unlike the other authors, he listed
Geotrygon sylvatica Gosse in the synonymy of his
Geotrygon cristata [
here].
In this case, the designation of
Geotrygon cristata amounts to a fixation of
Geotrygon sylvatica Gosse as the type species (
ICZN Art 69.2.2).
But maybe there is something else in between?
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If interested:
Johnson & Weckstein 2011: [
pdf here]
Banks et al 2013: [
pdf]