Crowned pigeon

The genus Goura was introduced by the English naturalist James Francis Stephens in 1819. The type species is the western crowned pigeon.{{ cite book | last=Stephens | first=James Francis | author-link=James Francis Stephens | year=1819 | title=General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History | volume=11 Part 1| language=en, la | place=London | publisher=G. Kearsley | page=119 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46395635 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1937 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=3 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=140 | url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14477855 }} The word Goura comes from the New Guinea aboriginal name for crowned pigeons.{{cite web | last=Jobling | first=J.A. | year=2018 | title= Key to Scientific Names in Ornithology | editor1-last=del Hoyo | editor1-first=J. | editor2-last=Elliott | editor2-first=A. | editor3-last=Sargatal | editor3-first=J. | editor4-last=Christie | editor4-first=D.A. | editor5-last=de Juana | editor5-first=E. | work=Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive | publisher=Lynx Edicions | url=https://www.hbw.com/dictionary/key-to-scientific-names-in-ornithology?name=Goura?name=Dicrurus | access-date=29 March 2018 }}

The genus contains four species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2017 | title=Pigeons | work=World Bird List Version 8.1 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/pigeons/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=28 January 2018 }}

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Image	Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
120px	Goura cristata	Western crowned pigeon	northwestern New Guinea
120px	Goura scheepmakeri	Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon	southeastern New Guinea
120px	Goura sclaterii	Sclater's crowned pigeon	southern New Guinea
120px	Goura victoria	Victoria crowned pigeon	northern New Guinea

Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon and Sclater's crowned pigeon were previously considered as conspecific with the English name "southern crowned-pigeon".

A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2018 found that the four species in the genus formed two pairs: the western crowned pigeon was sister to Sclater's crowned pigeon while Scheepmaker's crowned pigeon was sister to the Victoria crowned pigeon.

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|caption=Cladogram showing the crowned pigeons and their closest relatives based on a study by Bruxaux and colleagues published in 2018.{{ cite journal | last1=Bruxaux | first1=J. | last2=Gabrielli | first2=M. | last3=Ashari | first3=H. | last4=Prŷs-Jones | first4=R. | last5=Joseph | first5=L. | last6=Milá | first6=B. | last7=Besnard | first7=G. | last8=Thébaud | first8=C. | year=2018 | title=Recovering the evolutionary history of crowned pigeons (Columbidae: Goura): Implications for the biogeography and conservation of New Guinean lowland birds | journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | volume=120 | pages=248–258 | doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2017.11.022 | pmid=29199106 }}

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