Mauritian turtle dove

{{short description|Extinct species of bird}}

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| name = Mauritian turtle dove

| status = EX

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |year=2017 |title=Nesoenas cicur |amends=2016 |volume=2017 |page=e.T62257034A119206244 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T62257034A119206244.en |access-date=11 January 2020}}

| extinct = 1730s

| image = Mauritian turtle dove.jpg

| image_caption = Life restoration by Julian P. Hume

| genus = Nesoenas

| species = cicur

| authority = (Hume, 2011)

| synonyms =

| range_map = Mauritius island location.svg

| range_map_caption = Former range

}}

The Mauritian turtle dove (Nesoenas cicur) is an extinct species of the pigeon genus Nesoenas which was endemic to Mauritius. The holotype is a right tarsometatarsus collected in 2008 in southeastern Mauritius.{{ cite journal | last=Hume | first=J.P. | year=2011 | title=Systematics, morphology, and ecology of pigeons and doves (Aves: Columbidae) of the Mascarene Islands, with three new species | journal=Zootaxa | volume=3124 | issue=1 | pages=1–62 | doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3124.1.1 }} [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/z03124p062f.pdf First page ] It became extinct around 1730 because of overhunting, predation by rats, and deforestation.{{cite web | url=http://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/62257034#:~:text=Mauritius%20Turtle%2Ddove%20(Nesoenas%20cicur)%20%2D%20BirdLife%20species%20factsheet&text=This%20Extinct%20species%20has%20been,predation%20by%20rats%2C%20and%20deforestation | title=Mauritius Turtle-dove Nesoenas Cicur Species }}