Zenaida doves

DNA sequence analysis[5] confirms that the white-winged and West Peruvian doves are the most distinct and that they should be treated as distinct species. Relationships among the other species are quite unequivocal, too; what is not quite clear is whether the Galapagos dove is most closely related to the zenaida dove (as tentatively indicated by morphology) or to the eared and mourning doves (as suggested by DNA sequences — although with a very low confidence level – and, most robustly, biogeography).

Extant species

The genus contains seven species:[8]

Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
	Zenaida asiatica	White-winged dove	Southwestern United States through Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
	Zenaida auriculata	Eared dove	South America from Colombia to southern Argentina and Chile, and on the offshore islands from the Grenadines southwards
	Zenaida aurita	Zenaida dove	Caribbean and the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula
	Zenaida galapagoensis	Galápagos dove	Galápagos, off Ecuador
	Zenaida graysoni	Socorro dove	Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands; extinct in the wild
	Zenaida macroura	Mourning dove	Most of Canada and USA to south central Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and Panama
	Zenaida meloda	West Peruvian dove	from southern Ecuador to northern Chile

• Passenger pigeon, a similar-looking extinct species