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A new genus and species of pigeon (Aves, Columbidae) from the Kingdom of Tonga, with an evaluation of hindlimb osteology of columbids from Oceania

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  • 1. Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
  • 2. Department of Biology and Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. otakano@unm.edu; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3819-4299

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Steadman, David W., Takano, Oona M. (2020): A new genus and species of pigeon (Aves, Columbidae) from the Kingdom of Tonga, with an evaluation of hindlimb osteology of columbids from Oceania. Zootaxa 4810 (3): 401-420, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4810.3.1

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