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Scaled pigeon, the Glossary

Index Scaled pigeon

The scaled pigeon (Patagioenas speciosa) is a large New World tropical dove.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 25 relations: Ancient Greek, Binomial nomenclature, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Bird nest, Carl Linnaeus, Columba, Columbidae, Egg, Genus, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Helm Identification Guides, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Latin, Ludwig Reichenbach, Molecular phylogenetics, Monotypic taxon, New World, Patagioenas, Pearl kite, Pteridium aquilinum, Species description, Subspecies, Systema Naturae, Trinidad, White-crowned pigeon.

  2. Patagioenas

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.

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Binomial nomenclature

In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

The Biological Journal of the Linnean Society is a direct descendant of the oldest biological journal in the world, the Transactions of the Linnean Society.

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Bird nest

A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Columba

Columba or Colmcille (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission.

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Columbidae

Columbidae is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons.

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Egg

An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist.

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Helm Identification Guides

The Helm Identification Guides are a series of books that identify groups of birds.

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Johann Friedrich Gmelin

Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Ludwig Reichenbach

Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (8 January 1793 – 17 March 1879) was a German botanist, ornithologist and illustrator.

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Molecular phylogenetics

Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.

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Monotypic taxon

In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.

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New World

The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.

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Patagioenas

Patagioenas is a genus of New World pigeons whose distinctness from the genus Columba was long disputed but ultimately confirmed.

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Pearl kite

The pearl kite (Gampsonyx swainsonii) is a very small raptor found in open savanna habitat adjacent to deciduous woodland. Scaled pigeon and pearl kite are birds of Brazil, birds of Trinidad and Tobago, birds of the Amazon rainforest and birds of the Guiana Shield.

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Pteridium aquilinum

Pteridium aquilinum, commonly called bracken, brake, pasture brake, common bracken, and also known as eagle fern, is a species of fern occurring in temperate and subtropical regions in both hemispheres.

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Species description

A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Systema Naturae

(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.

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Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

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White-crowned pigeon

The white-crowned pigeon (Patagioenas leucocephala) is a fruit and seed-eating species of bird in the dove and pigeon family Columbidae. Scaled pigeon and white-crowned pigeon are Patagioenas.

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See also

Patagioenas

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_pigeon

Also known as Columba speciosa, Patagioenas speciosa.