Alectroenas rodericana

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	AVES	COLUMBIFORMES	COLUMBIDAE

Scientific Name:

Alectroenas rodericana

Species Authority:

(Milne-Edwards, 1874)

Common Name/s:

English

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Rodrigues Blue-pigeon, Rodrigues Pigeon

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 3.1

Year Assessed:

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:	Alectroenas rodericana is known from subfossil bones from Rodrigues, Mauritius², and descriptions from Leguat in 1708 and from Tafforet in 1726¹ . It presumably became extinct in the first half of the 18th century¹.

Range Description:

Alectroenas rodericana is known from subfossil bones from Rodrigues, Mauritius², and descriptions from Leguat in 1708 and from Tafforet in 1726¹ . It presumably became extinct in the first half of the 18th century¹.

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Nothing is known, although it was probably simialr to other members of the genus.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	The reasons for its extinction are probably hunting and the depredations of introduced rats.

Major Threat(s):

The reasons for its extinction are probably hunting and the depredations of introduced rats.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2008. Alectroenas rodericana. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 09 February 2012.
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