Pampusana

Pampusana
White-breasted ground dove (Pampusana jobiensis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Genus:	Pampusana Bonaparte, 1855
Diversity
10 living species
Synonyms
Alopecoenas Sharpe, 1899

Pampusana is a mid-sized

Systematics and extinctions

This genus was previously named

The bones of Pampusana are distinct enough to usually recognize this genus with ease. Still, the evolutionary affiliation of extinct species is often uncertain. A considerable number of recognizably distinct now-extinct Polynesian taxa used to inhabit the area where the white-headed lineage (P. jobiensis, P. erythroptera) and the Melanesian expansion that brought about P. sanctaecrucis and P. stairi (and possibly P. rubescens) would have met.

These ground-doves were removed from Gallicolumba (which was non-monophyletic) and reassigned here.^[2][3][4]

List of species

The genus contains 13 species of which 3 became extinct in historical times:^[2]

• Wetar ground dove, Pampusana hoedtii
• White-breasted ground dove, Pampusana jobiensis
• White-fronted ground dove, Pampusana kubaryi
• Polynesian ground dove, Pampusana erythroptera
• White-throated ground dove, Pampusana xanthonura
• †
  extinct
  (c.1800)
• Tongan ground dove, Pampusana stairi
• Santa Cruz ground dove, Pampusana sanctaecrucis
• †
  extinct
  (late 18th-19th century)
• †
  extinct
  (mid-20th century)
• Marquesan ground dove, Pampusana rubescens
• Bronze ground dove, Pampusana beccarii
• Palau ground dove, Pampusana canifrons

A further 4 species became extinct in prehistoric times:

• †
  prehistoric
• †
  prehistoric
• †
  prehistoric
• †
  prehistoric

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