Columbea

Columbea Temporal range: Eocene–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N [1]
Victoria crowned pigeon ( Goura victoria )
Black-necked Grebe ( Podiceps nigricollis )
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Infraclass:	Neognathae
Clade:	Neoaves
(unranked):	Columbea Jarvis et al., 2014
Clades
Columbimorphae Mirandornithes

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	Mirandornithes Phoenicopteriformes (flamingos) Podicipediformes (grebes) (Phoenicopterimorphae) Columbimorphae Columbiformes (pigeons and doves) Pterocliformes (sandgrouse) Mesitornithiformes (mesites)

References

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
2. Jarvis, E.D.; et al. (2014). "Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds". Science. 346 (6215): 1320–1331. Bibcode:2014Sci...346.1320J. doi:10.1126/science.1253451. PMC   4405904 . PMID   25504713.
3. Ericson, P. G.P; Anderson, C. L; Britton, T.; Elzanowski, A.; Johansson, U. S; Kallersjo, M.; Ohlson, J. I; Parsons, T. J; Zuccon, D.; Mayr, G. (2006). "Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils". Biology Letters. 2 (4): 543–547. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2006.0523. PMC   1834003 . PMID   17148284.
4. Hackett, S. J.; Kimball, R. T.; Reddy, S.; et al. (2008). "A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History" (PDF). Science. 320 (5884): 1763–1768. Bibcode:2008Sci...320.1763H. doi:10.1126/science.1157704. PMID   18583609. S2CID   6472805.