Turtur

Wood doves
	Turtur chalcospilos (behind) and Turtur afer (front) by Henrik Grönvold
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Subfamily:	Columbinae
Genus:	Turtur; Boddaert, 1783
Species
	See text.

Turtur is a small genus of doves native to Sub-Saharan Africa. Species in this genus are known as wood doves.

The genus Turtur was introduced in 1783 by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert to accommodate the blue-spotted wood dove (Turtur afer).[1][2] The word Turtur is Latin for "turtle dove".[3]

Species

The genus contains five species:[4]

Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
Turtur chalcospilos	Emerald-spotted wood dove	eastern and southern Africa.
Turtur abyssinicus	Black-billed wood dove	Africa just south of the Sahara Desert.
Turtur afer	Blue-spotted wood dove	Africa south of the Sahel
Turtur tympanistria	Tambourine dove	from Senegal east to Ethiopia and Kenya and southwards through eastern Africa to south-eastern South Africa
Turtur brehmeri	Blue-headed wood dove	African tropical rainforest.

References

Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 10 Number 160.
Peters, James Lee, ed. (1937). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 112.
Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 393. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 13 March 2020.

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[1] Boddaert, Pieter (1783). Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton : avec les denominations de M.M. de Buffon, Brisson, Edwards, Linnaeus et Latham, precedé d'une notice des principaux ouvrages zoologiques enluminés (in French). Utrecht. p. 10 Number 160.

[2] Peters, James Lee, ed. (1937). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 3. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 112.

[3] Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 393. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

[ioc-4] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 13 March 2020.