Mauritian turtle dove
Extinct species of bird
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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 introduced rats, and the deforestation of the island.[3]
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| Life restoration by Julian P. Hume | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Columbiformes |
| Family: | Columbidae |
| Genus: | Nesoenas |
| Species: | †N. cicur |
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| †Nesoenas cicur (Hume, 2011) | |
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