Zenaida doves

Zenaida doves

Taxobox



image_caption = Mourning Dove ("Zenaida macroura")
name = Zenaida Doves
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Columbiformes
familia = Columbidae
genus = "Zenaida"
genus_authority = Bonaparte, 1838
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

The "Zenaida doves" ("Zenaida") make up a small genus of American doves. There are 7 species:

* White-winged Dove, " Zenaida asiatica"
* Pacific Dove, " Zenaida meloda"
* Zenaida Dove, " Zenaida aurita"
* Galapagos Dove, " Zenaida galapagoensis"
* Eared Dove, " Zenaida auriculata"
* Mourning Dove, " Zenaida macroura"
* Socorro Dove, " Zenaida graysoni" (extinct in the wild)

DNA sequence analysis (Johnson & Clayton, 2000) confirms that the White-winged and Pacific Doves are the most distinct and that they should be treated as good 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).

The name of this genus commemorates Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte, wife of the French ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.

References

* Johnson, Kevin P. & Clayton, Dale H. (2000): A Molecular Phylogeny of the Dove Genus "Zenaida": Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA sequences. "Condor" 102(4): 864-870. [http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Condor/files/issues/v102n04/p0864-p0870.pdf PDF fulltext]


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