Columbea

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Columbea
Temporal range: Eocene–Recent [1]
Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria)
Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Neognathae
Clade: Neoaves
(unranked): Columbea
Jarvis et al., 2014
Clades

Columbea is a clade suggested by genome analysis that contains Columbiformes (pigeons and doves), Pteroclidae (sandgrouse), Mesitornithidae (mesites) and Mirandornithes (flamingos and grebes).[2] Until their recent placement as the sister taxon to Passerea, in the last decade various genetic analysis found them to be in the obsolete clade Metaves.[3][4]

Columbea

References

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  1. ^ Mourer-Chauvire, C. (1992) A very large primitive sandgrouse aves columbiformes pteroclidae in the paleogene of phosphorites du quercy france Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série II Mecanique-Physique-Chimie Sciences de l'Univers Sciences de la Terre 314(2):228-235
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