Zenaida doves

The zenaida doves (Zenaida) make up a small genus of American doves in the family Columbidae.

Zenaida Doves
Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)
Call of a mourning dove
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Subfamily: Columbinae
Genus: Zenaida
Bonaparte, 1838
Species

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The genus was introduced in 1838 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.[1] The name commemorates his wife, Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte, niece of Napoleon Bonaparte.[2] The type species is the Zenaida dove, Zenaida aurita.[3]

The genus contains seven species:[4]

DNA sequence analysis[5] confirms that the white-winged and west Peruvian doves are the most distinct and that they should be treated as distinct species. Relationships among the other species are quite unequivocal too; what is not quite clear is whether the Galapagos dove is most closely related to the zenaida dove (as tentatively indicated by morphology) or to the eared and mourning doves (as suggested by DNA sequences — although with a very low confidence level – and, most robustly, biogeography).

Zenaidini 
 

Geotrygon – 9 species

 
 
 
 

Leptotrygon – olive-backed quail-dove

 
 

Leptotila – 11 species

 
 
 
 
 

Zentrygon – 8 species

 
 

Zenaida – 7 species

 
 
 
 
 
Cladogram showing the position of Zenaida among its closest relatives.[6][7]

See also

References
  1. Bonaparte, Charles Lucian (1838). A Geographical and Comparative List of the Birds of Europe and North America. London: John Van Voorst. p. 41.
  2. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 414. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
  3. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1937). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 86.
  4. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  5. Johnson, Kevin P. & Clayton, Dale H. (2000). "A molecular phylogeny of the dove genus Zenaida: mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences" (PDF). Condor. 102 (4): 864–870. doi:10.1650/0010-5422(2000)102[0864:ampotd]2.0.co;2.
  6. Banks, R.C.; Weckstein, J.D.; Remsen Jr, J.V.; Johnson, K.P. (2013). "Classification of a clade of New World doves (Columbidae: Zenaidini)". Zootaxa. 3669 (2): 184–188. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3669.2.11.
  7. Johnson, K.P.; Weckstein, J.D. (2011). "The Central American land bridge as an engine of diversification in New World doves". Journal of Biogeography. 38: 1069–1076. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02501.x.


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