Turtur

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

Wood doves
Turtur chalcospilos (behind) and Turtur afer (front) by Henrik Grönvold
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Subfamily: Columbinae
Genus: Turtur
Boddaert, 1783
Species

See text.

The genus Turtur was introduced in 1783 by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert to accommodate the blue-spotted wood dove (Turtur afer).[1][2] The word Turtur is Latin for "turtle dove".[3]

Species

The genus contains five species:[4]

ImageScientific nameCommon nameDistribution
Turtur chalcospilosEmerald-spotted wood doveeastern and southern Africa.
Turtur abyssinicusBlack-billed wood doveAfrica just south of the Sahara Desert.
Turtur aferBlue-spotted wood doveAfrica south of the Sahel
Turtur tympanistriaTambourine dovefrom Senegal east to Ethiopia and Kenya and southwards through eastern Africa to south-eastern South Africa
Turtur brehmeriBlue-headed wood doveAfrican tropical rainforest.


References

  1. 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.
  2. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1937). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 112.
  3. Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 393. 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 13 March 2020.
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