Columba jouyi

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	COLUMBIFORMES	COLUMBIDAE

Scientific Name:

Columba jouyi

Species Authority:

(Stejneger, 1887)

Common Name/s:

English

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Ryukyu Pigeon, Ryukyu Wood Pigeon

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 3.1

Year Published:

2008

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Reviewer/s:

Bird, J., Butchart, S.

History:

2004	–	Extinct
2000	–	Extinct
1994	–	Extinct
1988	–	Extinct

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Columba jouyi was endemic to Okinawa and Kerama, and the Daito Islands, in the Nansei Shoto Islands, Japan². It was described in 1887 from a type in the Tokyo Educational Museum³, and is also known from three skins in Tring¹. It apparently declined rapidly (and inexplicably), and was last recorded on Okinawa in 1904, and on Daito in 1936².
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	It is likely to have inhabited the forested interior of the islands on which it lived.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	It is not known why it became extinct.

Major Threat(s):

It is not known why it became extinct.

Bibliography [top]

	Knox, A. G.; Walters, M. P. 1994. Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of the Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club, Tring, U.K. Stattersfield, A. J.; Crosby, M. J.; Long, A. J.; Wege, D. C. 1998. Endemic bird areas of the world: priorities for bird conservation. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K. Stejneger, L. 1887. Description of a new species of fruit-pigeon (Janthoenas jouyi) from the Lui Kiu Islands, Japan. American Naturalist 21: 538-539.

Knox, A. G.; Walters, M. P. 1994. Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of the Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club, Tring, U.K.

Stattersfield, A. J.; Crosby, M. J.; Long, A. J.; Wege, D. C. 1998. Endemic bird areas of the world: priorities for bird conservation. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

Stejneger, L. 1887. Description of a new species of fruit-pigeon (Janthoenas jouyi) from the Lui Kiu Islands, Japan. American Naturalist 21: 538-539.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2008. Columba jouyi. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 21 May 2012.
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