Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Aves (class)
10. Columbiformes (order)

Narrower term/s

• Raphus (extinct genus)[+]
  • Raphus cucullatus (extinct species)

Anotations

Scope note:

Family of extinct flightless birds, including the dodo, that inhabited the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues, but became extinct through hunting by humans and predation by introduced non-native mammals following human colonization in the 17th century.