Zenaida doves

The zenaida doves make up a small genus (Zenaida) of American doves in the family Columbidae.

Zenaida doves
Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura)
Call of a mourning dove
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Subfamily:	Columbinae
Genus:	Zenaida Bonaparte, 1838
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Melopelia Zenaidura

The genus was introduced in 1838 by French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.[1] The name commemorates his wife, Zénaïde Laetitia Julie Bonaparte, niece of Napoleon Bonaparte.[2] The type species is the Zenaida dove, Zenaida aurita.[3]

Systematics

DNA sequence analysis[4] 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).

Zenaidini    Geotrygon – 9 species         Leptotrygon – olive-backed quail-dove     Leptotila – 11 species           Zentrygon – 8 species     Zenaida – 7 species

Cladogram showing the position of Zenaida among its closest relatives.[5][6]

Extant species

The genus contains seven species:[7]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Zenaida macroura	Mourning dove	Canada and west USA to south central Mexico, Bermuda, Bahama Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Panama
	Zenaida graysoni (extinct in the wild)	Socorro dove	Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands
	Zenaida auriculata	Eared dove	South America from Colombia to southern Argentina and Chile, and on the offshore islands from the Grenadines southwards
	Zenaida aurita	Zenaida dove	Caribbean and the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula
	Zenaida galapagoensis	Galápagos dove	Galápagos, off Ecuador
	Zenaida asiatica	White-winged dove	Southwestern United States through Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
	Zenaida meloda	West Peruvian dove	from southern Ecuador to northern Chile

See also

• Passenger pigeon, a similar-looking extinct species

References

1. Bonaparte, Charles Lucian (1838). A Geographical and Comparative List of the Birds of Europe and North America. London: John Van Voorst. p. 41.
2. Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 414. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
3. Peters, James Lee, ed. (1937). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 86.
4. Johnson, Kevin P. & Clayton, Dale H. (2000). "A molecular phylogeny of the dove genus Zenaida: mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences" (PDF). Condor. 102 (4): 864–870. doi:10.1650/0010-5422(2000)102[0864:ampotd]2.0.co;2.
5. Banks, R.C.; Weckstein, J.D.; Remsen Jr, J.V.; Johnson, K.P. (2013). "Classification of a clade of New World doves (Columbidae: Zenaidini)". Zootaxa. 3669 (2): 184–188. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3669.2.11.
6. Johnson, K.P.; Weckstein, J.D. (2011). "The Central American land bridge as an engine of diversification in New World doves". Journal of Biogeography. 38: 1069–1076. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02501.x.
7. Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 March 2020.