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| male Thick-billed green pigeon | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Subfamily: | Treroninae |
| Genus: | Treron Vieillot, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Columba curvirostra Gmelin, 1789
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Treron is a genus of bird in the pigeon family Columbidae.[1] It contains 30 species distributed across Asia and Africa, they all are remarkable for their green plumage that lead to their common name green pigeons, which comes from a carotenoid pigment found in their diets of fruits in their wild habitats;[2] other than that, they also eat various, nuts, and/or seeds.
Members of this genus can be further grouped into species with long tails, medium-length tails, and wedge-shaped tails. Most species of green pigeon display sexual dimorphism, where males and females can be readily distinguished by differences in their plumage.[citation needed] They dwell in trees and occupy a variety of wooded habitats.[citation needed]
The genus Treron was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot with the thick-billed green pigeon (Treron curvirostra) as the type species.[3][4] The genus name is from the Ancient Greek τρηρων trērōn simply meaning "pigeon" or "dove".[5]
The genus contains 30 species:[1]
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