Gallicolumba ferruginea

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:

Gallicolumba ferruginea

Species Authority:

(Forster, 1844)

Common Name/s:

English

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Tanna Ground-dove, Tanna Ground-Dove

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:	Gallicolumba ferruginea is known only from Forster's 1774 painting, from Tanna Island, Vanuatu, in Tring².
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Nothing is known, although it may have inhabited the islands' forests.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	It is likely to have become extinct because of hunting and the depredations of human comensals.

Major Threat(s):

It is likely to have become extinct because of hunting and the depredations of human comensals.

Bibliography [top]

	Goodwin, D. 1967. Pigeons and doves of the world. British Museum (Natural History), London. 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. Peters, J. L. 1961. Family Columbidae. In: Peters, J.L. (ed.), Check-list of birds of the world, pp. 11-141. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Boston, USA.

Goodwin, D. 1967. Pigeons and doves of the world. British Museum (Natural History), London.

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.

Peters, J. L. 1961. Family Columbidae. In: Peters, J.L. (ed.), Check-list of birds of the world, pp. 11-141. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Boston, USA.

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