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Mauritian wood pigeon

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Mauritian wood pigeon
Life restoration by Julian P. Hume

Extinct (1735)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Columba
Species:
C. thiriouxi
Binomial name
Columba thiriouxi
Hume, 2011
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

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  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)