Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos

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:

Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos

Species Authority:

Olson, 1975

Common Name/s:

English

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St Helena Dove

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:	Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos is known only from fossil remains from St Helena (to UK), where it presumably became extinct following the island's colonisation in 1502². The "small kind of blue dove" reported by Forster in the 1770s¹ was Zebra Dove Geopelia striata, probably introduced to St Helena in the 16th century, and not D. dekarchiskos².

Range Description:

Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos is known only from fossil remains from St Helena (to UK), where it presumably became extinct following the island's colonisation in 1502². The "small kind of blue dove" reported by Forster in the 1770s¹ was Zebra Dove Geopelia striata, probably introduced to St Helena in the 16th century, and not D. dekarchiskos².

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	Nothing is known.
Systems:	Terrestrial

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	Hunting and the depredations of introduced predators are likely to have caused its extinction.

Major Threat(s):

Hunting and the depredations of introduced predators are likely to have caused its extinction.

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