Huahine cuckoo-dove

Huahine cuckoo-dove
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Macropygia
Species: M. arevarevauupa
Binomial name
Macropygia arevarevauupa
Steadman, 1992[1]

The Huahine cuckoo-dove (Macropygia arevarevauupa) is an extinct species of bird in the Columbidae family. It was endemic to French Polynesia where subfossil bones between 750 and 1250 years old have been found at the Fa'ahia early occupation site on Huahine in the Society Islands.[2]

Notes

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

References


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