Biology:Blue-spotted wood dove
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Genus: | Turtur |
| Species: | T. afer
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| Turtur afer (Linnaeus, 1766)
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The blue-spotted wood dove or blue-spotted dove (Turtur afer) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is abundantly present throughout Africa south of the Sahel; it is partially present in East Africa and absent in southern Africa.
Taxonomy
In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the blue-spotted wood dove in his six volume Ornithologie based on a specimen collected in Senegal. He used the French name La tourterelle de Sénégal and the Latin Turtur senegalensis.[2] Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.[3] When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson.[3] One of these was the blue-spotted wood dove which he placed with all the other pigeons in the genus Columba. Linnaeus included a brief description, coined the binomial name Columba afra and cited Brisson's work.[4] The specific name afer is the Latin word for "Africa".[5] The species is now placed in the genus Turtur that was introduced in 1783 by the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert.[6][7] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[7]
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2016). "Turtur afer". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22690628A93280584. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22690628A93280584.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22690628/93280584. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ↑ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760) (in fr, la). Ornithologie, ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, especes & leurs variétés. 1. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. pp. 122–123, Plate 10 fig 1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36010550. The two stars (**) at the start of the section indicates that Brisson based his description on the examination of a specimen.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Allen, J.A. (1910). "Collation of Brisson's genera of birds with those of Linnaeus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 28: 317–335.
- ↑ Linnaeus, Carl (1766) (in la). Systema naturae : per regna tria natura, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. 1, Part 1 (12th ed.). Holmiae (Stockholm): Laurentii Salvii. p. 284. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42946480.
- ↑ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4. https://archive.org/details/helmdictionarysc00jobl_997.
- ↑ Boddaert, Pieter (1783) (in fr). 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. Utrecht. p. 10 Number 160. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27822660.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/pigeons/.
External links
- Xeno-canto: audio recordings of the blue-spotted wood dove
- Blue-spotted wood dove - Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.
Wikidata ☰ Q482088 entry
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