Other Scientific Names
Columba cayennensis [BirdLife International (2004)], Columba cayennensis [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)], Columba cayennensis [Stotz et al. (1996)]
Other Names (World)
Pale-vented Pigeon, Rufous Pigeon, Blue Pigeon, Cayenne Pigeon, Purple-tinted Pigeon
Pale-vented Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis) [XC472275]
by Jerome Fischer from Pousada Para\u00edso, Taquaril - Petr\u00f3polis - RJ, Brazil (song)
Pale-vented Pigeon (Patagioenas cayennensis) [XC540224]
by Alejandro Vivas Ruiz from Bah\u00eda Drake, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (song)
Subspecies
Has no obvious close relatives. It has been proposed that it may be intermediate in some respects between the Northern Band-tailed Pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata) and Red-billed Pigeon (Patagioenas flavirostris) superspecies. Formerly listed as Columba rufina.
The following 7 subspecies are recognised:
pallidicrissa (Chubb, C, 1910) - Southern Mexico (Chiapas and Veracruz) south to northern Colombia.
andersoni (Cory, 1915) - South-eastern Colombia and eastern Ecuador eastern across Venezuela and Brazil north of Amazon to Pará.
tobagensis (Cory, 1915) - Trinidad and Tobago.
cayennensis Bonnaterre, 1792 - Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana.
sylvestris (Vieillot, 1818) - Eastern Peru and Brazil south of Amazon to Paraguay, northern Argentina and Uruguay.
occidentalis (Stolzmann, 1926) - Western Colombia, western Ecuador.