Columbinae is a subfamily of birds from the family

Columbidae Columbidae is a bird Family (biology), family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the Order (biology), order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with small heads, relatively short necks and slender bills that in ...

. Otherwise, four genera ''

Geotrygon ''Geotrygon'' is a bird genus in the pigeon and dove family (biology), family (Columbidae). Its members are called quail-doves, and all live in the Neotropics. The species of this genus have ranges from southern Mexico and Central America to the ...

'', '' Leptotila'', '' Starnoenas'' and ''

Zenaida __NOTOC__ Zenaida, Zenaide (Italian), Zénaïde ( French), or Zinaida (), from meaning "dedicated to Zeus".Behind the Na ...

'' form subfamily Leptotilinae.

Genera

*'' Caloenas'' *'' Chalcophaps'' *'' Claravis'' *''

Columba Columba () or Colmcille (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission. He founded the important abbey ...

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Columbina Columbine (Italian language, Italian: Colombina; French language, French: Colombine; ) is a stock character in the commedia dell'arte. She is Harlequin's mistress, a comic servant playing the tricky slave type, and wife of Pierrot. Rudlin and C ...

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Gallicolumba ''Gallicolumba'' is a mid-sized genus of ground-dwelling doves (family (biology), family Columbidae), most of which occur in rainforests on the Philippines. Local name 'punay' which is a general term for pigeons and doves. They are not closely re ...

'' *'' Geopelia'' *''

Geophaps ''Geophaps'' is a small genus of doves. Established by George Robert Gray, it contains three extant species. The plumage and distribution suggests that all species within the genus have formed from a common ancestor and that through adaptive ra ...

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'' *'' Henicophaps'' *'' Leptotila'' *'' Leucosarcia'' – wonga pigeon *''

Macropygia ''Macropygia'' is a genus of bird in the pigeon and dove family Columbidae. The genus is one of three genera known as cuckoo-doves. They are long tailed, range between 27 and 45 cm in length and have brown plumage. The genus now ranges from ...

'' *'' Metriopelia'' *'' Nesoenas'' *''

Ocyphaps The crested pigeon (''Ocyphaps lophotes'') is a bird found widely throughout mainland Australia except for the far northern tropical areas. Only two Australian pigeon species possess an erect crest, the crested pigeon and the spinifex pigeon. The ...

'' – crested pigeon *'' Oena'' – Namaqua dove *''

Patagioenas ''Patagioenas'' is a genus of New World pigeons whose distinctness from the genus ''Columba'' was long disputed but ultimately confirmed. It is basal to the ''Columba''-''Streptopelia'' radiation with their ancestors diverging from that lineage ...

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Petrophassa ''Petrophassa'', commonly known as the rock pigeons, is a small genus of doves in the family Columbidae native to Australia, and similar to bronzewing pigeons. The genus was introduced in 1841 by the English ornithologist and bird artist John G ...

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Phaps ''Phaps'' is a genus of bronzewing pigeons in the family Columbidae that are native to Australia. The genus was introduced in 1835 by the English naturalist Prideaux John Selby with the common bronzewing (''Phaps chalcoptera'') as the type spe ...

'' *'' Reinwardtoena'' *''

Spilopelia ''Spilopelia'' is a genus of doves that are closely related to ''Streptopelia'' and '' Nesoenas'', but distinguished from them by differences in morphology and genetics. Some authors had argued that ''Stigmatopelia'' is the valid name as it appea ...

'' *'' Starnoenas'' – blue-headed quail-dove *''

Streptopelia ''Streptopelia'' (collared doves and turtle doves) is a genus of 15 species of birds in the pigeon and dove family Columbidae native to the Old World in Africa, Europe, and Asia. These are mainly slim, small to medium-sized species. The upperpar ...

'' *'' Trugon'' – thick-billed ground pigeon *'' Turacoena'' *''

Turtur ''Turtur'' is a small genus of Columbidae, 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 woo ...

'' *'' Uropelia'' – long-tailed ground dove *''

Zenaida __NOTOC__ Zenaida, Zenaide (Italian), Zénaïde ( French), or Zinaida (), from meaning "dedicated to Zeus".Behind the Na ...

'' Including four extinct monotypic genera: *†'' Arenicolumba'' *†'' Dysmoropelia'' *†'' Ectopistes'' *†'' Microgoura''

References

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q135447 Columbidae