''Reinwardtoena'' is a small genus of doves in the family

Columbidae Columbidae () is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with short necks and short slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. They primarily ...

. They are found on parts of Indonesia,

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

and the

Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capita ...

. The genus was introduced by the French naturalist

Charles Lucien Bonaparte Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857), was a French naturalist and ornithologist. Lucien and his wife had twelve children, including Cardinal Lucien Bonaparte. Life and career ...

in 1854 with the

great cuckoo-dove The great cuckoo-dove (''Reinwardtoena reinwardti'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in the Maluku Islands and New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's se ...

(''Reinwardtoena reinwardti'') as the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

. The name commemorates the German naturalist

Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (5 June 1773 in Lüttringhausen – 6 March 1854 in Leiden) was a Prussian-born Dutch botanist. He is considered to be the founding father of Bogor Botanical Garden in Indonesia. Biography In 1787 he was appre ...

. The genus contains three species: *

Great cuckoo-dove The great cuckoo-dove (''Reinwardtoena reinwardti'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in the Maluku Islands and New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's se ...

, ''Reinwardtoena reinwardti'' * Pied cuckoo-dove, ''Reinwardtoena browni'' *

Crested cuckoo-dove The crested cuckoo-dove (''Reinwardtoena crassirostris'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to the Solomon Islands archipelago. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tr ...

, ''Reinwardtoena crassirostris''

References

Bird genera Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte {{Columbiformes-stub