Mauritian wood pigeon

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Mauritian wood pigeon
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Life restoration by Julian P. Hume
Status iucn3.1 EX.svg
Extinct  (1735)  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Columba
Species:
†C. thiriouxi
Binomial name
†Columba thiriouxi
Hume, 2011
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Former range

The Mauritian wood pigeon (Columba thiriouxi) is an extinct species of the pigeon genus Columba which was endemic to Mauritius. The holotype is a right tarsometatarsus collected in 1910 by Etienne Thirioux. [2]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2017) [amended version of 2016 assessment]. "Columba thiriouxi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017: e.T62254534A119206067. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T62254534A119206067.en . Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  2. ↑ Hume, J.P. 2011: Systematics, morphology, and ecology of pigeons and doves (Aves: Columbidae) of the Mascarene Islands, with three new species. Zootaxa, 3124: 1-62. Preview ISBN   978-1-86977-825-5 (paperback) ISBN   978-1-86977-826-2 (online edition)
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