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Columbiformes (1 Viewer)

New World ground doves

Andrew D. Sweet and Kevin P. Johnson. Patterns of diversification in small New World ground doves are consistent with major geologic events. The Auk 132(1):300-312. 2015.

[Abstract]
 
Spotted Dove

Huang, Tu & Liu (in press). Determination of the complete mitogenome of Spotted Dove, Spilopelia chinensis (Columbiformes: Columbidae). Mitochondr DNA. [abstract]
 
Geotrygon spp

Zootaxa 3669 (2): 184–188 (6 Jun. 2013)
Classification of a clade of New World doves (Columbidae: Zenaidini)
RICHARD C. BANKS, JASON D. WECKSTEIN, J.V. REMSEN, JR & KEVIN P. JOHNSON

http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2013/f/z03669p188f.pdf

IOC 5.3 Taxonomic Update:

Leptotrygon is a new genus for veraguensis which is more closely related to Leptotila than to Geotrygon (Banks et al 2013).

Zentrygon is a new genus for the clade of quail-doves that are related to Zenaida doves (Banks et al, 2013).
 
Ptilinopus

Alice Cibois, Jean-Claude Thibault, Jean-Yves Meyer and Eric Pasquet. On the origin of sympatric fruit doves in a small and remote Pacific archipelago. Pacific Science, vol. 69, no. 3. (Early view).

[PDF]
 
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Peristerinae/Claravinae

Dickinson & Remsen 2013 (H&M4 1)...
COLUMBIDAE ...
PERISTERINAE

This is the oldest group name available for this subfamily (Bock 1994) and was used by Gifford (1941).
John Boyd (TiF)...
Columbidae: ...
The name Peristerinae is sometimes used for Claravinae. However, this is incorrect as Peristerinae is based on the genus Peristera (Swainson 1827), which is a junior homonym of the mollusc genus Peristera (Rafinesque 1815). Thus Peristerinae is not available. The genus Peristera (Swainson 1827) was replaced by Claravis (Oberholser 1899). Richmond then used it to establish the subfamily Claravinae in 1917.
Dickinson & Raty 2015. The family-group name Claraviinae and its usage. Bull BOC 135(2): 188–189.
Concludes that the subfamily name Claravinae should be used.​
 
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Claravinae

Dickinson & Remsen 2013 (H&M4 1)...

John Boyd (TiF)...

Dickinson & Raty 2015. The family-group name Claraviinae and its usage. Bull BOC 135(2): 188–189.
Concludes that the subfamily name Claravinae should be used.​

:t: Dickinson & Raty, 2015:
Acknowledgements
We thank Thomas Kuenzel for drawing the internet comment to our attention, John Boyd for confirming the date his comment might first have been cited, and James Jobling for his confirmation of our interpretation of the correct stem and of the alternative conclusions the Code recognises. We also thank Alan Peterson and Wayne Longmore for their comments on the submitted manuscript.
 
Ptilinopus

Alice Cibois, Jean-Claude Thibault, Jean-Yves Meyer and Eric Pasquet. On the origin of sympatric fruit doves in a small and remote Pacific archipelago. Pacific Science, vol. 69, no. 3. (Early view). [PDF]
Formally published...
Cibois et al 2015. Pac Sci 69(3): 299–312. [abstract]

(It's curious that this journal provides open access to early view papers, but not to the final published versions.)
 
Dodo

Gold, Bourdon & Norell (in press). The first endocast of the extinct dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and an anatomical comparison amongst close relatives (Aves, Columbiformes). Zool J Linn Soc. [abstract & preview]
 
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Gold, Bourdon & Norell (in press). The first endocast of the extinct dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and an anatomical comparison amongst close relatives (Aves, Columbiformes). Zool J Linn Soc. [abstract & preview]

A media article

Public Release: 23-Feb-2016
Dodos might have been quite intelligent, new research finds

X-ray scans reveal that dodo's relative brain size was similar to pigeons, likely had enhanced sense of smell

American Museum of Natural History

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/amon-dmh022316.php
 
Rock & Stock Doves

Donegan 2016. The pigeon names Columba livia, 'C. domestica' and C. oenas and their type specimens. Bull BOC 136(1): 14–27.
SUMMARY.—The name Columba domestica Linnaeus, 1758, is senior to Columba livia J. F. Gmelin, 1789, but both names apply to the same biological species, Rock Dove or Feral Pigeon, which is widely known as C. livia. The type series of livia is mixed, including specimens of Stock Dove C. oenas, wild Rock Dove, various domestic pigeon breeds and two other pigeon species that are not congeners. In the absence of a plate unambiguously depicting a wild bird being cited in the original description, a neotype for livia is designated based on a Fair Isle (Scotland) specimen. The name domestica is based on specimens of the 'runt' breed, originally illustrated by Aldrovandi (1600) and copied by Willughby (1678) and a female domestic specimen studied but not illustrated by the latter. The name C. oenas Linnaeus, 1758, is also based on a mixed series, including at least one Feral Pigeon. The individual illustrated in one of Aldrovandi's (1600) oenas plates is designated as a lectotype, type locality Bologna, Italy. The names Columba gutturosa Linnaeus, 1758, and Columba cucullata Linnaeus, 1758, cannot be suppressed given their limited usage. The issue of priority between livia and domestica, and between both of them and gutturosa and cucullata, requires ICZN attention. Other names introduced by Linnaeus (1758) or Gmelin (1789) based on domestic breeds are considered invalid, subject to implicit first reviser actions or nomina oblita with respect to livia and domestica.
 
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Thanks Richard! Perhaps unimpressively(?), it has now been pointed out to me that the plates of Aldrovandi's second "oenas" (Figs. 3C and 3D in the Supplementary Materials) are of juvenile Woodpigeon not Stock Dove. This reinforces further the need for a lectotype, and the "right one" of Aldrovandi's birds was certainly selected.
Thomas
 
Rock Dove

Donegan 2016. The pigeon names Columba livia, 'C. domestica' and C. oenas and their type specimens. Bull BOC 136(1): 14–27.
The issue of priority between livia and domestica, and between both of them and gutturosa and cucullata, requires ICZN attention.
Donegan 2016. Case 3692: Columba livia Gmelin, 1789 and Columba livia domestica Linnaeus, 1758 (Aves, COLUMBIDAE): proposed conservation of specific and subspecific names in conformance with prevailing usage. BZN 73(1): 30–41. [pdf]

PS. Supplementary materials to Donegan 2016 (Bull BOC 136(1): 14–27) with corrections.
 
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