Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos
| Kingdom |
Phylum |
Class |
Order |
Family |
| ANIMALIA |
CHORDATA |
AVES |
COLUMBIFORMES |
COLUMBIDAE |
| Scientific Name: |
Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos |
| Species Authority: |
Olson, 1975 |
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Common Name/s:
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Assessment Information
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| Red List Category & Criteria: |
Extinct
ver 3.1
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| Year Published: |
2008 |
| Assessor/s: |
BirdLife International |
| Reviewer/s: |
Bird, J., Butchart, S. |
| History: |
| 2004 |
– |
Extinct
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| 2000 |
– |
Extinct
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| 1994 |
– |
Extinct
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| 1988 |
– |
Extinct
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Geographic Range
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| 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.
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Habitat and Ecology
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| Habitat and Ecology: |
Nothing is known.
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| Systems: |
Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): |
Hunting and the depredations of introduced predators are likely to have caused its extinction.
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Bibliography
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Ashmole, N. P. 1963. Subfossil bird remains on Ascension Island. Ibis 103b: 382-389.
Olson, S. L. 1975. Paleornithology of St Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 23: 1-49.
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