Metriopelia

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Metriopelia
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Black-winged ground dove
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Subfamily: Columbinae
Genus: Metriopelia
Bonaparte, 1855
Type species
Columba melanoptera [1]
Gmelin, 1789
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Metriopelia is a genus of ground doves containing four species that live in the dry, upland habitats along the Andean mountain chain in South America. They have large wings and three species have orange skin around the eyes.

The genus was introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1855 with the black-winged ground dove (Metriopelia melanoptera) as the type species. [2] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek metrios meaning "modest" with peleia meaning "dove". [3]

The four species in the genus are: [4]

Genus Metriopelia Bonaparte, 1855 – four species
Common nameScientific name and subspeciesRangeSize and ecologyIUCN status and estimated population
Bare-faced ground dove

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Metriopelia ceciliae
(Lesson, 1845)
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru
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Black-winged ground dove

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Metriopelia melanoptera
(Molina, 1782)

Two subspecies
  • M. m. melanoptera
  • M. m. saturatior.
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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Golden-spotted ground dove

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Metriopelia aymara
(Prévost, 1840)
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru
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Moreno's ground dove

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Metriopelia morenoi
(Sharpe, 1902)
Argentina
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References

  1. "Columbidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  2. Bonaparte, Charles Lucien (1855). "Coup d'oeil sur les pigeons (quatrième partie)". Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). 40: 15–24 [23].
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . London: Christopher Helm. p.  252. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 4 March 2020.