Phoeniconaias
| Phoeniconaias | |
|---|---|
| At Lake Nakuru, Kenya | |
| Scientific classification | |
| 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) | |
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, and an extinct species, Phoeniconaias proeses, from the Pliocene of Australia, which is thought to have been even smaller.