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Mauritian wood pigeon
Extinct species of bird / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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Mauritian wood pigeon | |
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Life restoration by Julian P. Hume | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Columbiformes |
Family: | Columbidae |
Genus: | Columba |
Species: | †C. thiriouxi |
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†Columba thiriouxi Hume, 2011 | |
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