Gallicolumba

Belongs within: Treroninae.

Gallicolumba, the bleeding hearts, is a genus of ground-dwelling doves found in insular south-east Asia and New Guinea, a number of species of which have a prominent red patch on the breast that inspires the vernacular name.

<==Gallicolumba Heck 1849 [=Plegoenas Reichenbach 1851; incl. Pampusanna Pucheran in Dumont d’Urville 1853; Gallicolumbinae]CC10
    |--*G. luzonicaCC10, JT12 [=Columba luzonicaCC10, *Plegoenas luzonicaCC10]
    |--G. canifronsJT12
    |--G. crinigeraJT12 [=Peristera crinigerCC10, *Pampusanna crinigerCC10]
    |--G. cruentaCC10
    |--G. erythropteraJT12
    |    |--G. e. erythropteraHSS13
    |    `--G. e. pectoralisHSS13
    |--G. ferruginea Forster 1844F02
    |--G. hoedtiiJT12
    |--G. keayiJT12
    |--G. kubaryiJT12
    |--G. menageiJT12
    |--G. norfolciensis (Latham 1802) [=Columba norfolciensis, Carpophaga norfolciensis]CC10
    |--G. platenaeJT12
    |--G. rubescensJT12
    |--G. rufigulaJT12
    |--G. salamonisHSS13
    |--G. sanctaecrucisJT12
    |--G. stairiJT12
    |--G. tristigmataJT12
    `--G. xanthonuraJT12

*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 4^th ed. Ornithological Society of New Zealand and Te Papa Press: Wellington.

[F02] Fuller, E. 2002. Foreword. Extinct birds. In: Hoyo, J. del, A. Elliott & J. Sargatal (eds) Handbook of the Birds of the World vol. 7. Jacamars to Woodpeckers pp. 11–68. Lynx Edicions: Barcelona.

[HSS13] Hirschfeld, E., A. Swash & R. Still. 2013. The World’s Rarest Birds. Princeton University Press: Princeton (New Jersey).

[JT12] Jetz, W., G. H. Thomas, J. B. Joy, K. Hartmann & A. Ø. Mooers. 2012. The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444–448.