Turacoena

Turacoena is a small genus of doves in the family Columbidae that are found in Indonesia.

Turacoena
White-faced cuckoo-dove (Turacoena manadensis) in North Sulawesi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Subfamily:	Columbinae
Genus:	Turacoena Bonaparte, 1854
Type species
Columba manadensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1830
Species
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The genus was introduced in 1854 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte.^[1] The type species is the white-faced cuckoo-dove (Turacoena manadensis).^[2][3] The name Turacoena combines the genus name Turacus introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1800 and the Ancient Greek oinas meaning "pigeon".^[4]

The genus includes just 3 species.^[5]

Genus Turacoena – Bonaparte, 1854 – three species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
White-faced cuckoo-dove	Turacoena manadensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)	Sulawesi and the Togian Islands in Indonesia.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Sula cuckoo-dove	Turacoena sulaensis Forbes & Robinson, 1900	Sula Islands and the Banggai Archipelago, Indonesia	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Black cuckoo-dove	Turacoena modesta (Temminck, 1835)	Lesser Sunda Islands and is found on Timor, Wetar, Rote, and Atauro	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT