Mauritian turtle dove

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
Life restoration by Julian P. Hume
Conservation status
Extinct (1730s)  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Genus:	Nesoenas
Species:	†N. cicur
Binomial name
†Nesoenas cicur (Hume, 2011)
Former range