List of wild pigeons genera
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This page is a list of the genera of pigeons and doves (the family Columbidae), which are a clade of bird species of cosmopolitan distribution. The group has 310 living species.[1][2][3] Extinct species assignment follows the Mikko's Phylogeny Archive[4] and Paleofile.com websites.[5] Classification is based on the work by John Boyd.[6]
Placement unresolved
- Genus †Arenicolumba Steadman, 2008
- Genus †Bountyphaps Worthy & Wragg, 2008 (Henderson Island archaic pigeon) (prehistoric)
- Genus †Dysmoropelia Olson, 1975 (Saint Helena dove)
- Genus †Rupephaps Worthy, Hand, Worthy, Tennyson, & Scofield, 2009 (St. Bathans pigeon, Miocene of New Zealand)
Subfamily Columbinae (typical pigeons and doves)
- Tribe Zenaidini [Leptotilinae] (quail-doves and allies)
- Genus Geotrygon (10 species)
- Genus Starnoenas (blue-headed quail-dove)
- Genus Leptotrygon (olive-backed quail-dove)
- Genus Leptotila (11 species)
- Genus Zenaida (7 species)
- Genus Zentrygon (8 species)
- Tribe Columbini
- Genus Patagioenas (American pigeons, 17 species)
- Genus †Ectopistes (passenger pigeon; extinct 1914)
- Genus Reinwardtoena (3 species)
- Genus Turacoena (3 species)
- Genus Macropygia (typical cuckoo-doves, 15 species)
- Genus Streptopelia (turtle doves and collared doves, 13 species)
- Genus Columba (Old World pigeons, 35 species of which 2 recently extinct)
- Genus Spilopelia (2 species)
- Genus Nesoenas (3 species)
Subfamily Claravinae (American ground doves)
- Genus Claravis (blue ground dove)
- Genus Paraclaravis (2 species)
- Genus Uropelia (long-tailed ground dove)
- Genus Metriopelia (4 species)
- Genus Columbina (9 species)
Subfamily Raphinae
- Tribe Phabini (bronzewings and relatives)
- Genus Henicophaps (2 species)
- Genus Gallicolumba (bleeding-hearts and allies, 7 species)
- Genus Pampusana (13 species of which 3 recently extinct)
- Genus Ocyphaps (crested pigeon)
- Genus Petrophassa (rock pigeons, 2 species)
- Genus Leucosarcia (wonga pigeon)
- Genus Geopelia (5 species)
- Genus Phaps (Australian bronzewings, 3 species)
- Genus Geophaps (3 species)
- Tribe Raphini [Didunculinae; Otidiphabinae; Gourinae]
- Genus ?†Natunaornis (Viti Levu giant pigeon) (prehistoric)
- Genus Trugon (thick-billed ground pigeon)
- Genus †Microgoura (Choiseul crested pigeon, extinct early 20th century)
- Genus Otidiphaps (pheasant pigeon)
- Genus Goura (crowned pigeons, 4 species)
- Genus Didunculus (tooth-billed pigeon)
- Genus ?†Deliaphaps De Pietri, Scofield, Tennyson, Hand, & Worthy, 2017 (Zealandian dove, Miocene of New Zealand)
- Genus Caloenas (Nicobar pigeon)
- Genus †Raphus (dodo, extinct late 17th century)
- Genus †Pezophaps (Rodrigues solitaire, extinct c. 1730)
- Tribe Turturini
- Genus Phapitreron (brown doves, 3 species)
- Genus Oena (Namaqua dove, tentatively placed here)
- Genus Turtur (wood doves, 5 species; tentatively placed here)
- Genus Chalcophaps (emerald doves, 3 species)
- Tribe Treronini
- Genus Treron (green pigeons, 23 species)
- Tribe Ptilinopini (fruit doves and imperial pigeons)
- Genus Ducula (imperial pigeons, 36 species)
- Genus Ptilinopus [Drepanoptila; Alectroenas] (fruit doves, some 50 living species, 1–2 recently extinct)
- Genus Hemiphaga (2 species)
- Genus Lopholaimus (topknot pigeon)
- Genus Cryptophaps (sombre pigeon)
- Genus Gymnophaps (mountain pigeons, 4 species)
- Genus ?†Tongoenas Steadman & Takano, 2020 (Tongan giant pigeon) (prehistoric)