Lamprotornis columbinus Bonaparte (part), Consp. Avium, 1, 1850, p. 417 (Mariann. =Guam).
Lamprotornis columbina Hartlaub (part), Journ. f. Ornith., 1854, p. 167 (Mariannen =Guam); Kittlitz, Denkw. Reise russ. Amer. Micron, und Kamchat., 1, 1858, pp. 367, 376 (Guaham).
Calornis opaca Gray (part), Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean, 1859, p. 26 (Ladrone or Marian Is.); idem, (part), Hand-list Birds, 2, 1870, p. 27 (Ladrone = Guam?).
Calornis kittlitzi Finsch and Hartlaub (part), Fauna Centralpolynesiens, 1867, p. 109 (Marianen = Guam?); Oustalet, Le. Nat., 1889, p. 261 (Mariannes).
Calornis columbina Giebel (part), Thes. Ornith., 2, 1875, p. 427 (Marianae = Guam?).
Calornis pacificus Finsch (part), Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 12, 1876, pp. 17, 32 Marianne).
Aplonis kittlitzi Wiglesworth (part), Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 44 (Marianne; Oustalet (part), Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 212 (Guam, Saypan); Hartert (part), Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 58 (Guam, Saipan); Wheeler, Report Island of Guam, 1900, p. 13 (Guam); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p. 54 (Marianas); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, p. 112 (Guam); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 69 (Guam); idem, The Plant World, 7, 1904, p. 264 (Guam); idem, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 9, 1905, p. 79 (Guam); Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 36, 1909, p. 477 (Guam); Takatsukasa and Kuroda (part), Tori, 1, 1915, p. 64 (Marianas); Cox, Island of Guam, 1917, p. 21 (Guam); Bryan, Guam Rec, vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 25 (Guam).
Aplonis opaca Wetmore (part), in Townsend and Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 63, 1919, p. 219 (Guam).
Aplonis kittlitzi kurodai Momiyama, Tori, 2, 1920, p. (Saipan).