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Phaps
Sign in to savePhaps is a genus of bronzewing pigeons in the family Columbidae that are native to Australia.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderColumbiformes
- FamilyColumbidae
Observations recorded431,390
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 7
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Columbidae
- Collections
- ANWC, SAMA
- Recorded in
- Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Columbinae
- Image
- Bronze wing444.jpg
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- genus
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- Phaps
- taxon name
- Phaps
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- Category:Phaps
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Encyclopedic overview
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Phaps is a genus of bronzewing pigeons in the family Columbidae that are native to Australia.
The genus was introduced in 1835 by the English naturalist Prideaux John Selby with the common bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera) as the type species. The genus name Phaps () is the Ancient Greek word for a wild pigeon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Phaps” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.