The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Afropelia
(Columbidae; syn. Streptopelia † Ring-necked Dove S. capicola) L. Afer, Afra African < Africa Africa; Gr. πελεια peleia dove; "I consider that our Cape Turtle Dove should be separated from Streptopelia, represented here by S. semitorquata and S. ambigua, under a different generic head, for which I propose the name of AFROPELIA gen. nov., genotype Columba capicola Sundevall." (A. Roberts 1922); "Afropelia A. Roberts, 1922, Annals Transvaal Mus., VIII (4), p. 197. Type, by original designation, Columba capicola Sundevall, 1857." (JAJ 2020).
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