Gallicolumba
{{short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic Taxobox
| image = Australien2010 0547 LuzonBleedingHeart.jpg
| image_caption=Luzon bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba luzonica
| taxon = Gallicolumba
| authority = Heck, 1849Johann Georg Heck: Bilder-Atlas zum Conversations-Lexikon. Verlag Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1849.
| type_species = Columba cruenta{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/checklist?viewfamilies=66 |title= Columbidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-08-05}}
| type_species_authority = Gmelin, 1789
| diversity = See text
| synonyms =
- Plegoenas Reichenbach, 1851
- Phlegoenas Reichenbach, 1852 (unj. Emend.)
}}
Gallicolumba is a mid-sized genus of ground-dwelling doves (family Columbidae), most of which occur in rainforests on the Philippines. Local name 'punay' which is a general term for pigeons and doves. They are not closely related to the American ground doves genus (Columbina and related genera). Rather, the present genus is closest to the thick-billed ground pigeon.
The Filipino species are known as bleeding-hearts due to their vivid-red patch on the breast, which looks startlingly like a bleeding wound in some species and has reminded naturalists of a dagger stab. The diet of doves of this genus consists of fruits and seed.
Systematics and extinctions
Gallicolumba might be ranked as a (very small) subfamily, but the available data suggests that they are better considered part of a quite basal radiation of Columbidae which consists of many small and often bizarre lineages (e.g. Goura and Otidiphaps which are ecologically convergent to Galliformes, and maybe even the famous didines (Raphinae).
- Sulawesi ground dove, Gallicolumba tristigmata
- Cinnamon ground dove, Gallicolumba rufigula
- Luzon bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba luzonica
- Mindanao bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba crinigera
- Mindoro bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba platenae
- Negros bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba keayi
- Sulu bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba menagei - possibly extinct (late 1990s?)
Many of the Pacific ground doves were removed from Gallicolumba (which was non-monophyletic) and reassigned to the genus Alopecoenas, which was later renamed Pampusana.{{ cite journal | last1=Jønsson | first1=K.A. | last2=Irestedt | first2=M. | last3=Bowie | first3=R.C.K. | last4=Christidis | first4=L. | last5=Fjeldså | first5=J. | year=2011 | title=Systematics and biogeography of Indo-Pacific ground-doves | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=59 | issue=2 | pages=538–543 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2011.01.007 | pmid=21256968 | bibcode=2011MolPE..59..538J }}{{ cite journal | last1=Moyle | first1=R.G. | last2=Jones | first2=R.M. | last3=Andersen | first3=M.J. | year=2013 | title=A reconsideration of Gallicolumba (Aves: Columbidae) relationships using fresh source material reveals pseudogenes, chimeras, and a novel phylogenetic hypothesis | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=66 | issue=3 | pages=1060–1066 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.024 | pmid=23220516 | bibcode=2013MolPE..66.1060M }}
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