Information about Turtur

Wood Doves

Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Columbiformes
Family:Columbidae
Genus:Turtur
Boddaert, 1783
Species


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Turtur is a small genus of Doves native to Sub-Saharan Africa. It includes 5 species:
T. chalcospilos

Binomial name
Turtur chalcospilos
(Wagler, 1827)

The Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Turtur chalcospilos
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Columbiformes
Latham, 1790

Families
  • Columbidae
  • Raphidae


The bird order Columbiformes includes the very widespread and successful doves and pigeons, classified in the family Columbidae, and the extinct Dodo and the Rodrigues
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Columbidae

Subfamilies

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Pigeons and doves constitute the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes, which include some 300 species of near passerine birds.
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Pieter Boddaert (1730 - 1795 or 1796) was a Dutch physician and naturalist.

Boddaert was a lecturer on natural history at the University of Utrecht. In 1783 he published fifty copies of an identification key of Edmé-Louis Daubenton's Planches enluminees
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Columbidae

Subfamilies

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Pigeons and doves constitute the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes, which include some 300 species of near passerine birds.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is the term used to describe the area of the African continent which lies south of the Sahara desert. Geographically, the demarcation line is the southern edge of the Sahara Desert.
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T. chalcospilos

Binomial name
Turtur chalcospilos
(Wagler, 1827)

The Emerald-spotted Wood Dove, Turtur chalcospilos
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T. abyssinicus

Binomial name
Turtur abyssinicus
(Sharpe, 1902)

The Black-billed Wood Dove (Turtur abyssinicus
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T. afer

Binomial name
Turtur afer
(Linnaeus, 1766)

The Blue-spotted Wood-dove (Turtur afer) is a species of bird in the Columbidae family.
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T. tympanistria

Binomial name
Turtur tympanistria
(Temminck, 1809)

The Tambourine Dove (Turtur tympanistria
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T. brehmeri

Binomial name
Turtur brehmeri
(Hartlaub, 1865)

The Blue-headed Wood-dove, Turtur brehmeri also known as Blue-headed Dove
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