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The Barbary dove, ringed turtle dove, ringneck dove, ring-necked turtle dove, or ring dove (Streptopelia risoria) is a domestic member of the dove and pigeon family (Columbidae).
The Barbary dove was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He placed it with the doves and pigeons in the genus Columba and coined the binomial name Columba risoria. Linnaeus specified the type locality as India. The specific epithet risoria is Latin meaning "laughing". The Barbary dove was formerly believed to be a domesticated form of the Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto), but genetic evidence has shown that it is a domesticated form of the African collared dove (Streptopelia roseogrisea).]
There is a disagreement as to whether risoria should replace roseogrisea as the epithet for the African collared dove. In 2008 the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature expressed an opinion that risoria should have priority, but this change has not been followed in the list maintained by Frank Gill, Pamela C. Rasmussen and David Donsker on behalf of the International Ornithological Committee (IOC), or by the Clements Checklist of Birds of the World maintained by members of Cornell University.
It appears that it can hybridize freely with either species, and its status as a species must therefore be regarded as doubtful. However, because of the wide use of both the common and systematic names, it is best to consider it separately from either of the parent species. Their time of domestication is also uncertain. While Linnaeus described them in 1758, they may have been imported into Italy from North Africa in the late 16th century.
