Turtur

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Wood doves
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Turtur chalcospilos (behind) and Turtur afer (front) by Henrik Grönvold
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Subfamily: Columbinae
Genus: Turtur
Boddaert, 1783
Type species
Columba afra [1]
Linnaeus, 1766
Species

See text.

Turtur is a small genus of doves native to Sub-Saharan Africa. [2] Species in this genus are known as wood doves.

The genus Turtur was introduced in 1783 by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert to accommodate the blue-spotted wood dove (Turtur afer). [3] [4] The word Turtur is Latin for "turtle dove". [5]

Species

The genus contains five species: [6]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Turtur chalcospilos in Kruger National Park (13877683603).jpg Turtur chalcospilos Emerald-spotted wood dove eastern and southern Africa.
Blackbilledwooddove.jpg Turtur abyssinicus Black-billed wood dove Africa just south of the Sahara Desert.
Turtur afer -Gambia-8.jpg Turtur afer Blue-spotted wood dove Africa south of the Sahel
2007 08 05 Tambourine Dove.jpg Turtur tympanistria Tambourine dove from Senegal east to Ethiopia and Kenya and southwards through eastern Africa to south-eastern South Africa
Stavenn Turtur brehmeri 00.jpg Turtur brehmeri Blue-headed wood dove African tropical rainforest.

References

  1. ↑ "Columbidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  2. ↑ "Turtur". mindat.org . Retrieved 2021-12-19.
  3. ↑ Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 10 Number 160.
  4. ↑ Peters, James Lee, ed. (1937). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 112.
  5. ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 393. ISBN   978-1-4081-2501-4.
  6. ↑ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 13 March 2020.


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