Mauritian turtle dove

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Mauritian turtle dove
Life restoration by Julian P. Hume

Extinct (1730s) (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Nesoenas
Species:
N. cicur
Binomial name
Nesoenas cicur
(
Hume
, 2011)
Former range

The Mauritian turtle dove (Nesoenas cicur) is an extinct species of the

pigeon genus Nesoenas which was endemic to Mauritius. The holotype is a right tarsometatarsus collected in 2008 in southeastern Mauritius.[2] It became extinct around 1730 because of overhunting, predation by rats, and deforestation.[3]

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