Information about Phaps

Phaps
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Columbiformes
Family:Columbidae
Genus:Phaps
Selby, 1835
Species


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Phaps is a small genus of bronzewing pigeons. It includes 3 species.
Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Columbiformes
Latham, 1790

Families
  • Columbidae
  • Raphidae


The bird order Columbiformes includes the very widespread and successful doves and pigeons, classified in the family Columbidae, and the extinct Dodo and the Rodrigues
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Columbidae

Subfamilies

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Pigeons and doves constitute the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes, which include some 300 species of near passerine birds.
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Prideaux John Selby (July 23, 1788–March 27, 1867) was an English ornithologist, botanist and artist and landowner.

Selby is best known for his Illustrations of British Ornithology (1821–1834), the first set of life-sized illustrations of British birds.
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bronzewing pigeons are a group of pigeons native to Australia which have distinctive iridescent wing patches that appear bronze or green-brown in dull light, but flash in many bright colours in the sun as the bird moves.
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Phaps chalcoptera
(Latham, 1790)

The Common Bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera) is a species of medium-sized, heavily built pigeon.
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P. elegans

Binomial name
Phaps elegans
(Temminck, 1809)

The Brush Bronzewing (Phaps elegans) is a species of bird in the Columbidae family. It is endemic to Australia.
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P. histrionica

Binomial name
Phaps histrionica
(Gould, 1841)

The Flock Bronzewing (Phaps histrionica), also known as the Flock Pigeon
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