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

Columba which was endemic to Mauritius. The holotype is a right tarsometatarsus collected in 1910 by Etienne Thirioux.[2]

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