Phoeniconaias is a genus of birds in the flamingo family Phoenicopteridae. The genus contains one extant species, the lesser flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor), occurring in sub-Saharan Africa and western India,[1] and an extinct species, Phoeniconaias proeses, from the Pliocene of Australia, which is thought to have been even smaller.[2]
| Phoeniconaias | |
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| At Lake Nakuru, Kenya | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Phoenicopteriformes |
| Family: | Phoenicopteridae |
| Genus: | Phoeniconaias G. R. Gray, 1869 |
| Type species | |
| Phoenicopterus minor (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1798)
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References
edit- ^ Manakadan, R. & Khan, A. N. (2020). "Birds of the Indian Subcontinent – In a Nutshell". Buceros. 24 (Special Issue 2 & 3): 1–79.
- ^ Miller, A.H. (1963). "The fossil flamingos of Australia" (PDF). The Condor. 65 (4): 289–299. doi:10.2307/1365355. JSTOR 1365355.
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