Columbea

{{Short description|Clade of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Eocene|Recent}} Mourer-Chauvire, C. (1992) A very large primitive sandgrouse aves columbiformes pteroclidae in the paleogene of phosphorites du quercy france Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Serie II Mecanique-Physique-Chimie Sciences de l'Univers Sciences de la Terre 314(2):228-235

| image = Victoria Crowned Pigeon Jurong.jpg

| image2 = Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis), non-breeding plumage.jpg

| image_caption = Victoria crowned pigeon (Goura victoria)

| image2_caption = Black-necked Grebe (Podiceps nigricollis)

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Columbea

| authority = Jarvis et al., 2014

| subdivision_ranks = Clades

| subdivision =

• Columbimorphae
• Mirandornithes

}}

Columbea is a clade suggested by genome analysis that contains Columbiformes (pigeons and doves), Pteroclidae (sandgrouse), Mesitornithidae (mesites) and Mirandornithes (flamingos and grebes).{{cite journal | last1 = Jarvis | first1 = E.D. | display-authors = etal | year = 2014 | title = Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds | url= | journal = Science | volume = 346 | issue = 6215| pages = 1320–1331 | doi=10.1126/science.1253451 | pmid=25504713 | pmc=4405904| bibcode = 2014Sci...346.1320J }} Until their recent placement as the sister taxon to Passerea, in the last decade various genetic analysis found them to be in the obsolete clade Metaves.{{cite journal|last1=Ericson|first1=P. G.P|last2=Anderson|first2=C. L|last3=Britton|first3=T.|last4=Elzanowski|first4=A.|last5=Johansson|first5=U. S|last6=Kallersjo|first6=M.|last7=Ohlson|first7=J. I|last8=Parsons|first8=T. J|last9=Zuccon|first9=D.|last10=Mayr|first10=G.|title=Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils|journal=Biology Letters|date=2006|volume=2|issue=4|pages=543–547|doi=10.1098/rsbl.2006.0523|pmid=17148284|pmc=1834003}}{{cite journal|last1=Hackett|first1=S. J.|last2=Kimball|first2=R. T.|last3=Reddy|first3=S.|title=A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History|journal=Science|date=2008|volume=320|issue=5884|pages=1763–1768|doi=10.1126/science.1157704|url=http://birdsofallorders.com/references/1763Phylogenomicstudy.full.pdf|pmid=18583609|bibcode=2008Sci...320.1763H|s2cid=6472805|display-authors=etal}}

{{clade|style=font-size:100%

|label1=Columbea

|1={{Clade

|label1=Mirandornithes |sublabel1=(Phoenicopterimorphae)

|1={{Clade

|1=Phoenicopteriformes (flamingos)50 px

|2=Podicipediformes (grebes)50 px

}}

|label2=Columbimorphae

|2={{Clade

|1=Columbiformes (pigeons and doves)50 px

|label2=

|2={{Clade

|1=Pterocliformes (sandgrouse)50 px

|2=Mesitornithiformes (mesites)50 px

}}

}}

}}

}}