Columbaves
| Columbaves Temporal range:
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| Rock Pigeon ( Columba livia )
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| Great Bustard ( Otis tarda )
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Clade: | Neoaves |
| Clade: | Columbaves Prum et al., 2015 |
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Columbaves is a clade that contains
Cypselomorphae the sister taxon to Otidimorphae, respectively, found by Jarvis et al. (2014).[2] Neither hypothesis supports the two subdivisions of Metaves and Coronoaves as previous studies had found.[3][4]
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In 2020 Kuhl et al. sequenced 3-prime untranslated region (3’UTR) from 429 species and 379 genera of birds found support of Columbaves in their study. However they have found that cuckoos are the sister group to pigeons within Columbimorphae instead as shown in the cladogram below:[5]
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See also
References
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