Blue Pigeon
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| Alectroenas pulcherrima | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Genus: | Alectroenas G.R. Gray, 1840 |
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Alectroenas is a genus of birds in the Columbidae family.
It contains the following species:
- Madagascar Blue Pigeon (Alectroenas madagascariensis)
- Comoro Blue Pigeon (Alectroenas sganzini)
- Mauritius Blue Pigeon (Alectroenas nitidissima)†
- Seychelles Blue Pigeon (Alectroenas pulcherrima)
The extinct Rodrigues Grey Pigeon (Alectroenas rodericana) is usually assigned to the genus Alectroenas, but this is erroneous. In reality, it probably belongs to an undescribed genus, as the sternum's shape is very dissimilar in its details to that of Alectroenas or Columba, and indeed to any other living genus of pigeons and doves. It is most similar to that of the Gallicolumba ground doves or to a miniature version of the sternum of a Ducula imperial pigeon.
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