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".
Species
The genus contains five species:
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! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution
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|120px || Turtur chalcospilos|| Emerald-spotted wood dove|| eastern and southern Africa
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|120px || Turtur abyssinicus||Black-billed wood dove|| Africa just south of the Sahara Desert
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|120px || Turtur afer|| Blue-spotted wood dove|| Africa south of the Sahel
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|120px || Turtur tympanistria|| Tambourine dove|| from Senegal east to Ethiopia and Kenya and southwards through eastern Africa to south-eastern South Africa
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|120px || Turtur brehmeri||Blue-headed wood dove|| African tropical rainforest
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