Great ground dove

Great ground dove
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Gallicolumba
Species: G. nui
Binomial name
Gallicolumba nui
Steadman, 1992[1]

The great ground dove (Gallicolumba nui) is an extinct species of bird in the Columbidae family. It was found in Mangaia in the southern Cook Islands,[2] and in French Polynesia where subfossil bones between 1-2000 years old have been found in the Marquesas, as well as between 750-1250 years old at the Fa'ahia early occupation site on Huahine in the Society Islands.[3]

Notes

  1. Steadman (1992).
  2. Steadman (2006).
  3. Kirchman & Steadman (2006).

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