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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Choiseul Crested Pigeon, Choiseul Pigeon, Solomon Islands Crowned-pigeon, Solomon Islands Ground Pigeon
Common Names in French:
Microgoura de Choiseul
Common Names in German:
Salomonentaube
Common Names in Japanese:
カンザシバト
Description
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Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial [1].
Ecology:
It was probably a forest
species.
[1].
List of Habitats
:
- 1 Forest
- 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland [more info]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Psittacimorphae
()
- Huxley, 1867
- Order:
Columbiformes
()
- Latham, 1790
- Suborder:
Columbae
()
- Latham, 1790
- Family:
Columbidae
()
- Illiger, 1811
- Subfamily:
Columbinae
()
- Genus:
Microgoura
()
- Rothschild, 1904
- Specific name:
meeki
- Rothschild 1904
- Scientific name: - Microgoura meeki Rothschild, 1904 Rothschild 1904
- Specific name:
meeki
- Rothschild 1904
- Genus:
Microgoura
(
- Subfamily:
Columbinae
(
- Family:
Columbidae
(
- Suborder:
Columbae
(
- Order:
Columbiformes
(
- Superorder:
Psittacimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 26-May-2005
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Microgoura
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species and subspecies in this genus:
M. meeki (Solomon Islands Crowned-Pigeon)
More Info
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- Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books
Further Reading
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- 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 195.
- A naturalist in cannibal land, by A.S. Meek. Ed. by Frank Fox, with an introduction by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, and thirty-six illustrations London, Leipsic, T.F. Unwin[1913] url p. 134, p. 187, p. 235.
- Birds of the world; a popular account. With a chapter on the anatomy of birds, by Frederic A. Lucas; the whole edited by Robert Ridgway. New York, Holt, 1909. url p. 438, p. 862.
- Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. London: The Club, 1893- url p. 101.
- Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 138.
- Global Biodiversity: status of the Earth's living resources WCMC url p. 212.
- Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 621.
- World Atlas of Biodiversity: earth's living resources in the 21st century UNEP-WCMC url p. 284.
- World Checklist of Threatened Birds Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 89.
Notes
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Contributors
- BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- BirdLife International 2004. Microgoura meeki. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
- BirdLife International 2008. Microgoura meeki. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9484
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-177285
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 177285
- IUCN ID: 223426
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 7497
Footnotes
- BirdLife International 2008. Microgoura meeki. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 02 February 2012. [back]
