Mauritian wood pigeon
Mauritian wood pigeon | |
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Life restoration by Julian P. Hume
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Columbiformes |
Family: | Columbidae |
Genus: | Columba |
Species: | †C. thiriouxi
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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]
References
- . Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-86977-826-2(online edition)