Order Columbiformes | Class Aves Phylum Chordata Rank Species | |
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Similar Nesoenas, Bermuda saw‑whet owl, North Island snipe, Finsch's duck, Oceanic eclectus parrot |
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 south-east Mauritius.
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