Mauritian turtle dove | |
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Life restoration by Julian P. Hume | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Columbiformes |
Family: | Columbidae |
Genus: | Nesoenas |
Species: | †N. cicur
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Binomial name | |
†Nesoenas cicur (Hume, 2011)
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Former range |
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 rats, and deforestation.[3]