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Mauritian wood pigeon

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Aves

Family
  
Columbidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Columbiformes

Genus
  
Columba

Mauritian wood pigeon

Similar
  
Finsch's duck, Rodrigues pigeon, Cameroon olive pigeon, Island bronze‑naped pigeon, Bonin wood pigeon

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.

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Mauritian wood pigeon Wikipedia