Mauritian wood pigeon

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Mauritian wood pigeon
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C. thiriouxi
Binomial name
Columba thiriouxi
Hume, 2011
Mauritius island location.svg
Former range

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The Mauritian wood pigeon (Columba thiriouxi) is an extinct species of the pigeon genus Columba which was endemic to Mauritius. The holotype is a right tarsometatarsus collected in 1910 by Etienne Thirioux.[2]

References

  1. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/62254534/0
  2. Hume, J.P. 2011: Systematics, morphology, and ecology of pigeons and doves (Aves: Columbidae) of the Mascarene Islands, with three new species. Zootaxa, 3124: 1-62. Preview ISBN 978-1-86977-825-5 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-86977-826-2 (online edition)