Chalcophaps

Female (left) and male common emerald doves Chalcophaps indica, copyright Sham Edmond.

Belongs within: Treroninae.

Chalcophaps, the emerald doves, is a genus of stocky doves with brownish neck and underparts and bright green wings, found between southern and eastern Asia and northern and eastern Australia.

<==Chalcophaps Gould 1843 [incl. Monornis Hodgson in Gray 1844; Chalcophabinae]CC10
    |--C. indica (Linnaeus 1758)CC10 (see below for synonymy)
    |    |--C. i. indicaCC10
    |    |--C. i. longirostris Gould 1848CC10
    |    |--C. i. natalis Lister 1888CC10
    |    |--C. i. rogersi Mathews 1912 [=C. chrysochlora rogersi; incl. C. chrysochlora kempi Mathews 1912]CC10
    |    |--‘Chalcospilos’ i. timorensisT62
    |    `--C. i. yamashinai Hachisuka 1939I92
    `--C. stephaniJ06
         |--C. s. stephaniJ06
         `--C. s. wallaceiJ06

Chalcophaps indica (Linnaeus 1758)CC10 [=Columba indicaCC10, Chalcospilos indicaT62; incl. Columba chrysochlora Wagler 1827CC10, *Chalcophaps indica chrysochloraCC10, *Monornis perpulchraCC10]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[CC10] Checklist Committee (OSNZ). 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica 4th ed. Ornithological Society of New Zealand and Te Papa Press: Wellington.

[I92] Iwahashi, J. (ed.) 1992. Reddo Deeta Animaruzu: a pictorial of Japanese fauna facing extinction. JICC: Tokyo.

[J06] Johnstone, R. E. 2006. The birds of Gag Island, Western Papuan islands, Indonesia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 23 (2): 115–132.

[T62] Tendeiro, J. 1962. Estudos sobre malófagos: revisão monográfica do género Columbicola Ewing (Ischnocera, Philopteridae). Memórias da Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, ser. 2, 32: 7–460.

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