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The spotted dove was formally described in 1786 by the Austrian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli and given the binomial name Columba chinensis. [2] Scopoli based his account on "La tourterelle gris de la Chine" that had been described and illustrated in 1782 by the French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat in the second volume of his book Voyage aux Indes orientales et à la Chine. [3]
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Mitrella ocellata, the white-spotted dove shell, ... The aperture is narrow, of a violet color. The outer lip is obtuse, thick, almost straight, interiorly having ...
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European turtle dove: Streptopelia turtur (Linnaeus, 1758) EU: primarily Europe; to North Africa and China: 58: Dusky turtle dove: Streptopelia lugens (Rüppell, 1837) AF, EU: east Africa and Arabian Peninsula: 59: Adamawa turtle dove: Streptopelia hypopyrrha (Reichenow, 1910) AF: West Africa: 60: Oriental turtle dove: Streptopelia orientalis ...
Spilopelia is a genus of doves that are closely related to Streptopelia and Nesoenas, but distinguished from them by differences in morphology and genetics.Some authors [1] had argued that Stigmatopelia is the valid name as it appears in an earlier line of the same work by the Swedish zoologist Carl Sundevall, [2] [a] but Richard Schodde and Ian J. Mason had earlier, in their 1999 zoological ...
The genus was introduced by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1855 with the black-winged ground dove (Metriopelia melanoptera) as the type species. [2] The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek metrios meaning "modest" with peleia meaning "dove". [3] The four species in the genus are: [4]