Metriopelia: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Columbiformes
Family
Columbidae
Genus
Metriopelia
Species
Scientific Name
Metriopelia

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Metriopelia

Metriopelia is a genus of ground doves containing four species that live in the dry, upland habitats along the Andean mountain chain in South America. They have large wings and three species have orange skin around the eyes.

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. The name of the genus combines the Ancient Greek metrios meaning "modest" with peleia meaning "dove".

The four species in the genus are:


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Metriopelia in languages:

Bokmål
Andesduer
English
Metriopelia Ground Doves
English
Andean Ground Doves
English
Puna Ground Doves
Estonian
Puunatuvid
Finnish
andienkyyhkyt
Russian
Земляные горлицы-метропелиа

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