Zenaida doves
{{short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Mourning Dove Image 002.jpg
| image_caption = Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)
| image2 = Zenaida macroura vocalizations - pone.0027052.s009.oga
| image2_caption = Call of a mourning dove
| name = Zenaida doves
| taxon = Zenaida
| authority = Bonaparte, 1838
| type_species = Zenaida amabilis{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=66 |title= Columbidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-08-05}}
| type_species_authority = Bonaparte, 1838
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text.
| synonyms =
- Melopelia
- Zenaidura
}}
The zenaida doves make up a small genus (Zenaida) of American doves in the family Columbidae.
The genus was introduced in 1838 by French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.{{cite book | last=Bonaparte | first=Charles Lucien | author-link=Charles Lucien Bonaparte | year=1838 | title=A Geographical and Comparative List of the Birds of Europe and North America | publisher=John Van Voorst | location=London | page=41 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33208430 }} The name commemorates his wife, Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte, niece of Napoleon Bonaparte.{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher= Christopher Helm | location = London | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page = [https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n414 414]}} The type species is the Zenaida dove, Zenaida aurita.{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1937 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=3 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=86 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14477801 }}
It is the national bird of Anguilla.{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2020 |title=Zenaida aurita |volume=2020 |page=e.T22690750A163499479 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22690750A163499479.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}
Systematics
DNA sequence analysis{{cite journal|author1=Johnson, Kevin P. |author2=Clayton, Dale H. |name-list-style=amp |year=2000|title= A molecular phylogeny of the dove genus Zenaida: mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences | journal=Condor | volume=102 | issue=4 | pages= 864–870 | url=http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v102n04/p0864-p0870.pdf | doi=10.1650/0010-5422(2000)102[0864:ampotd]2.0.co;2 | doi-access=free }} confirms that the white-winged and West Peruvian doves are the most distinct and that they should be treated as distinct species. Relationships among the other species are quite unequivocal, too; what is not quite clear is whether the Galapagos dove is most closely related to the zenaida dove (as tentatively indicated by morphology) or to the eared and mourning doves (as suggested by DNA sequences — although with a very low confidence level – and, most robustly, biogeography).
{{Phylogeny/Zenaidini}}
{{Phylogeny/Zenaida}}
=Extant species=
| class="wikitable" | |||
| Image | Scientific name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120px | Zenaida asiatica | White-winged dove | Southwestern United States through Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean |
| 120px | Zenaida auriculata | Eared dove | South America from Colombia to southern Argentina and Chile, and on the offshore islands from the Grenadines southwards |
| 120px | Zenaida aurita | Zenaida dove | Caribbean and the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula |
| 120px | Zenaida galapagoensis | Galápagos dove | Galápagos, off Ecuador |
| 120px | Zenaida graysoni | Socorro dove | Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands; extinct in the wild |
| 120px | Zenaida macroura | Mourning dove | Most of Canada and USA to south central Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and Panama |
| 120px | Zenaida meloda | West Peruvian dove | from southern Ecuador to northern Chile |
See also
- Passenger pigeon, a similar-looking extinct species
References
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Category:Birds of the Americas
Category:Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte
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