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EUROPEAN STUDBOOK CROWNED PIGEONS<br />
Group<br />
Class<br />
Sub-class<br />
Vertebrata<br />
Vertebrates<br />
Aves<br />
Birds<br />
Neornithes<br />
True birds<br />
Superorder<br />
Neognathae<br />
Typical birds<br />
Order<br />
Columbiformes<br />
Sandgrouse and Pigeons<br />
Sub-Order<br />
Columbae<br />
Pigeons, Dodos and Solitaires<br />
Familiy<br />
Columbidae<br />
Pigeons, Doves<br />
Sub-Family<br />
Gourinae<br />
Crowned pigeons<br />
Genus<br />
Goura<br />
Crowned pigeons<br />
Species<br />
Cristata Scheepmakeri Victoria<br />
Common crowned pigeon Scheepmaker's crwoned pigeon Victoria crowned pigeon<br />
Sub-species<br />
Cristata Scheepmakeri Victoria<br />
Common crowned pigeon Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon Victoria crowned pigeon<br />
Minor Sclaterii Beccarii<br />
Lesser common crowned pigeon Sclater's crowned pigeon Beccari's crowned pigeon<br />
5.2 Species or sub-species<br />
Scientists are not sure whether the three species of Goura are real species or sub-species to one<br />
species. Species has been defined in many ways and there still isn't a definition which everyone<br />
agrees with. The classis definition of a species is based on reproductive isolation and coming from<br />
Ernst W. Mayr (1904-2005). Mayr was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists<br />
and defined species as:<br />
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