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Extinct species of bird From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
Mauritian turtle dove | |
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Life restoration by Julian P. Hume | |
Scientific 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 |
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