Zenaida

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Cladus: Reptiliomorpha
Cladus: Amniota
Classis: Reptilia
Cladus: Eureptilia
Cladus: Romeriida
Subclassis: Diapsida
Cladus: Sauria
Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha
Cladus: Crurotarsi
Divisio: Archosauria
Subsectio: Ornithodira
Subtaxon: Dinosauromorpha
Cladus: Dinosauria
Ordo: Saurischia
Cladus: Theropoda
Cladus: Neotheropoda
Infraclassis: Aves
Cladus: Euavialae
Cladus: Avebrevicauda
Cladus: Pygostylia
Cladus: Ornithothoraces
Cladus: Euornithes
Cladus: Ornithuromorpha
Cladus: Ornithurae
Cladus: Carinatae
Parvclassis: Neornithes
Cohors: Neognathae
Ordo: Columbiformes

Familia: Columbidae
Subfamilia: Columbinae
Genus: Zenaida
Species: Z. asiatica - Z. auriculata - Z. aurita - Z. galapagoensis - Z. graysoni - Z. macroura - Z. meloda

Name

Zenaida Bonaparte, 1838
Synonyms

Zenaidura Bonaparte, 1854

References

A geographical and comparative list of the birds of Europe and North America: 41
Johnson, K. P., & Clayton, D. H. (2000). A molecular phylogeny of the dove genus Zenaida: mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Condor 102: 864–870.

Vernacular names
Aymar aru: Qhurukutu
English: Zenaida doves
suomi: Vaikertajakyyhkyt
中文: 哀鴿屬

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.[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 asiatica	White-winged dove	Southwestern United States through Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
	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 graysoni	Socorro dove	Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands; extinct in the wild
	Zenaida macroura	Mourning dove	Most of Canada and USA to south central Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and Panama
	Zenaida meloda	West Peruvian dove	from southern Ecuador to northern Chile

See also

Passenger pigeon, a similar-looking extinct species

References

Bonaparte, Charles Lucian (1838). A Geographical and Comparative List of the Birds of Europe and North America. London: John Van Voorst. p. 41.
Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 414. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
Peters, James Lee, ed. (1937). Check-List of Birds of the World. Volume 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 86.
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.
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.
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.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 March 2020.