Species profile
Tooth-billed Pigeon
Didunculus strigirostris
Quick answer
Gnathodon strigirostris Jardine, 1845 MZUT AV 19159; mount; adult female; Samoan Islands, no date; purchased from J. C. Godeffroy in 1870. Remarks. — On 18 February 1870 the MZUT purchased a collection of 62 birds from Johann Cesar Godeffroy of Hamburg (Germany). In addition to the skin of specimen MZUT AV 19159, the skeleton was also preserved (Salvadori 1915).
- Scientific name
- Didunculus strigirostris
- Family
- Columbidae
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Genus
- Didunculus
- Conservation status
- Critically Endangered
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Related species in Columbidae
- Adamawa Turtle-dove (Streptopelia hypopyrrha)
- Afep Pigeon (Columba unicincta)
- African Green-pigeon (Treron calvus)
- African Olive-pigeon (Columba arquatrix)
- Amboyna cuckoo-dove (Columba amboinensis)
- Amethyst Brown-dove (Phapitreron amethystinus)
- Andaman Cuckoo-Dove (Macropygia rufipennis)
- Andaman Green-pigeon (Treron chloropterus)