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Turacoena

genus of doves

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ1767410 ↗
Source-derived summary

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

The genus was introduced in 1854 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The type species is the white-faced cuckoo-dove (Turacoena manadensis). The name Turacoena combines the genus name Turacus introduced by the French naturalist Georges Cuvier in 1800 and the Ancient Greek oinas meaning "pigeon".

The genus includes just 3 species.

Editorial summary

“Turacoena” enters the record as genus of doves. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Turacoena, genus and doves can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1854, 1800—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Turacoena, genus and doves.
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Why this record matters

“Turacoena” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Turacoena, genus and doves provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 28, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1767410. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1854 and 1800.

Critical limits

Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Turacoena primary sources, Turacoena archive and Turacoena research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Turacoena” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.