| Patagioenas | |
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| Band-tailed pigeons (Patagioenas fasciata) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Subfamily: | Columbinae |
| Genus: | Patagioenas Reichenbach, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Columba leucocephala (white-crowned pigeon ) Linnaeus, 1758
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| Species | |
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17, see text. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chloraenas Bonaparte, 1854 (unjustified emendation) | |
Patagioenas is a genus of New World pigeons whose distinctness from the genus Columba was long disputed but ultimately confirmed. It is basal to the Columba-Streptopelia radiation with their ancestors diverging from that lineage likely over 8 million years ago. While the biogeographic pattern of this group suggests that the ancestors of typical pigeons and turtle-doves settled the Old World from the Americas, Patagioenas may also be the offspring of Old World pigeons that radiated into different genera later, given that the cuckoo-doves (Macropygia) of Southeast Asia also seem to be closely related.[1]
- ^ Johnson et al. (2001), Cheke (2005)