Columba picturata (Temminck, 1813) Homopelia picturata (Temminck, 1813) Streptopelia picturata Temminck, 1813 The Malagasy turtle dove or Madagascar turtle dove (Nesoenas picturatus) is a bird species in the pigeon and dove family, Columbidae.

The Rodrigues pigeon, an extinct but fairly enigmatic taxon from Rodrigues on the Mascarenes, was for some time suspected to be another subspecies of N. picturata, but today is generally considered a distinct species (N. rodericanus).

The pink pigeon (N. mayeri) is its closest living relative, and together they form a lineage apart from both the typical pigeons (Columba) and the typical turtle doves (Streptopelia), slightly closer to the latter, if anything.

[2] It is found in Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, Réunion, Mayotte, Seychelles and the Chagos archipelago.

Though some island populations are rare – some precariously so – as a whole N. picturata is considered a species of least concern by the IUCN.