Patagioenas

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Band-tailed Pigeons.jpg

| image_caption = Band-tailed pigeons (Patagioenas fasciata)

| taxon = Patagioenas

| authority = Reichenbach, 1852

| type_species = Columba leucocephala (white-crowned pigeon )

| type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 17, see text.

| synonyms =

Chloroenas Reichenbach, 1852

Lepidoenas Reichenbach, 1852

Chloraenas Bonaparte, 1854 (unj. emend.)

Crossophthalmus Bonaparte, 1854 (nomen nudum)

Lepidaenas Bonaparte, 1854 (unj. emend.)

Patagiaenas Bonaparte, 1854 (unj. emend.)

Chloraenos Bonaparte, 1856 (missp.)

Patagiaena Bonaparte, 1856 (missp.)

Patagoenas Heine & Reichenow, 1890 (missp.)

Oenoenas Salvadori, 1893

}}

Patagioenas is a genus of New World pigeons whose distinctness from the genus Columba was long disputed but ultimately confirmed. It is basal to the Columba-Streptopelia radiation with their ancestors diverging from that lineage likely over 8 million years ago. While the biogeographic pattern of this group suggests that the ancestors of typical pigeons and turtle-doves settled the Old World from the Americas, Patagioenas may also be the offspring of Old World pigeons that radiated into different genera later, given that the cuckoo-doves (Macropygia) of Southeast Asia also seem to be closely related.Johnson et al. (2001), Cheke (2005)

Taxonomy

The genus Patagioenas was introduced by German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1853, with the white-crowned pigeon (Patagioenas leucocephala) as the type species.{{ cite book | last=Reichenbach | first=Ludwig | author-link=Ludwig Reichenbach | year=1853 | title=Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie | publisher=Friedrich Hofmeister | language=German | place=Leipzig | page=xxv | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47618655 }} The genus name combines the Ancient Greek patageō meaning "to clatter" and oinas meaning "pigeon".{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=294 }}

There are 17 species of Patagioenas, which can be assigned to four groups based on mtDNA cytochrome b, cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2, as well as the nuclear β-fibrinogen intron 7 data combined with analyses of vocalizations and morphology. They could be considered subgenera, but one remains unnamed so they are only informally listed here:Johnson et al. (2001), Mahler & Tubaro (2001)

caribaea/band-tailed group (Chloroenas): Characterized by tails with terminal bands and iridescent neck; rows of low single coos. Apparently the most basal group.

Band-tailed pigeon, Patagioenas fasciata
Chilean pigeon, Patagioenas araucana
Ring-tailed pigeon, Patagioenas caribaea

leucocephala group (Patagioenas sensu stricto): Characterized by iridescent neck and dark plumage, or white edged outer wing coverts, or scaly appearance; groups of triple coos with the first call in each drawn out except in speciosa

White-crowned pigeon, Patagioenas leucocephala
Scaly-naped pigeon, Patagioenas squamosa
Scaled pigeon, Patagioenas speciosa
Picazuro pigeon, Patagioenas picazuro
Bare-eyed pigeon, Patagioenas corensis
Spot-winged pigeon, Patagioenas maculosa

cayennensis group: No display plumage except iridescent head in cayennensis; groups of double or triple coos with the first call in each short

Pale-vented pigeon, Patagioenas cayennensis
Red-billed pigeon, Patagioenas flavirostris
Maranon pigeon, Patagioenas oenops
Plain pigeon, Patagioenas inornata

plumbea group (Oenoenas): Small size, plain plumage, rounded tails, small bills, phrase composed of high single coos

Plumbeous pigeon, Patagioenas plumbea
Ruddy pigeon, Patagioenas subvinacea
Short-billed pigeon, Patagioenas nigrirostris
Dusky pigeon, Patagioenas goodsoni

A fossil species (Curtis pigeon) initially placed in Chloroenas, Patagioenas micula (Early Pliocene of Curtis Ranch, USA) is known. A small member of this genus, it probably indeed belonged to the band-tailed group.

Footnotes

Sources

Cheke, Anthony S. (2005). Naming segregates from the Columba–Streptopelia pigeons following DNA studies on phylogeny. Bull. B.O.C. 125(4): 293–295. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110710143423/http://www.dodobooks.com/files/Cheke2005PigeonNames.pdf PDF fulltext]
{{cite journal | last1=Johnson | first1=K.P. | last2=De Kort | first2=S | last3=Dinwoodey | first3=K. | last4=Mateman | first4=A.C. | last5=Ten Cate | first5=C. | last6=Lessells | first6=C.M. | last7=Clayton | first7=D.H. | year=2001 | journal=Auk | volume=118 | title=A molecular phylogeny of the dove genera Streptopelia and Columba | issue=4 | pages=874–887 | doi=10.1642/0004-8038(2001)118[0874:AMPOTD]2.0.CO;2 | hdl=20.500.11755/a92515bb-c1c6-4c0e-ae9a-849936c41ca2 | doi-access=free }}
Mahler, Bettina & Tubaro, Pablo L. (2001). Relationship between song characters and morphology in New World pigeons. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 74(4): 533–539. {{doi|10.1006/bijl.2001.0596}} (HTML abstract)

Patagioenas

Taxonomy

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