Turtur: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae
- Genus
- Turtur
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Turtur
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Turtur
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). The word Turtur is Latin for "turtle dove".
...Turtur in languages:
- Arabic
- يمام الخشب
- Bokmål
- Alveduer
- English
- Wood-Doves
- English
- Wood Doves
- Estonian
- Halatuvid
- Finnish
- uikuttajakyyhkyt
- German
- Afrikanische Buschtauben
- Japanese
- アオフバト属
- Portuguese
- rolas-esmeraldinas
- Russian
- Лесные горлицы
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Alectroenas
- Alopecoenas
- Aplopelia
- Bountyphaps
- Caloenas
- Chalcophaps
- Claravis
- Columba
- Columbina
- Cryptophaps
- Didunculus
- Drepanoptila
- Ducula
- Dysmoropelia
- Ectopistes
- Gallicolumba
- Geopelia
- Geophaps
- Geotrygon
- Goura
- Gymnophaps
- Hemiphaga
- Henicophaps
- Leptotila
- Leptotrygon
- Leucosarcia
- Lopholaimus
- Macropygia
- Metriopelia
- Microgoura
- Natunaornis
- Nesoenas
- Ocyphaps
- Oena
- Otidiphaps
- Paraclaravis
- Patagioenas
- Petrophassa
- Pezophaps
- Phapitreron
- Phaps
- Ptilinopus
- Raphus
- Reinwardtoena
- Spilopelia
- Starnoenas
- Streptopelia
- Streptopelia decaocto × Zenaida macroura
- Treron
- Trugon
- Turacoena
- Turtur
- Uropelia
- Zenaida
- Zentrygon














