Turtur

Belongs within: Treroninae.

Turtur, wood doves, is an African genus of brown pigeons with iridescent spots on the inner secondary feathers of the wings.

<==Turtur Boddaert 1783B94 [incl. Chalcopelia Bonaparte 1855T62; Turturinae]
    |  i. s.: T. abyssinicus (Sharpe 1902) [=Chalcopelia abyssinica; incl. T. abyssinicus delicatulus]M-PG70
    |         T. humilisS89
    |         T. meenaS89
    |         T. semitorquatusS66
    |         T. tympanistriaJT12
    |--T. brehmeri (Hartlaub 1865)BKB15, M-PG70 [=Chalcopelia brehmeriM-PG70; incl. Calopelia puella brehmeriPB27]
    |    |--T. b. brehmeriM-PG70
    |    `--T. b. infelix Peters 1937 [incl. Calopelia puella]M-PG70
    `--+--T. afer (Linnaeus 1766)BKB15, M-PG70 (see below for synonymy)
       `--T. chalcospilos (Wagler 1827)BKB15, M-PG70 [=Columba chalcospilosM-PG70; incl. T. chalcospilos erlangeriM-PG70]
            |--T. c. chalcospilosT62
            |--T. c. patetusT62
            `--T. c. volkmanniT62

Turtur afer (Linnaeus 1766)^{BKB15, M-PG70} [=Columba afra^T62, Chalcopelia afra^T62; incl. T. afer kilimensis^M-PG70, T. afer liberiensis Rand 1949^M-PG70]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[B94] Bock, W. J. 1994. History and nomenclature of avian family-group names. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 222: 1–281.

[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.

[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.

[M-PG70] Mackworth-Praed, C. W., & C. H. B. Grant. 1970. African Handbook of Birds ser. 3 vol. 1. Birds of West Central and Western Africa. Longman: London.

[PB27] Pilsbry, H. A., & J. Bequaert. 1927. The aquatic mollusks of the Belgian Congo, with a geographical and ecological account of Congo malacology. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 53 (2): 69–602, pls 10–77.

[S89] Salvadori, T. 1889. Viaggio di Leonardo Fea nella Birmania e nelle regioni vicine. XIX.—Uccelli raccolti nei Monti Carin a nord-est di Tounghoo, nel Pegù presso Rangoon e Tounghoo e nel Tenasserim presso Malewoon. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, Serie 2^a, 7: 369–438.

[S66] Sclater, P. L. 1866. Report on birds collected at Windvogelberg, South Africa, by Capt. G. E. Bulger, C. M. Z. S. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1866: 21–23.

[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.