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Was the solitaire of Re´union an ibis ?
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Was the solitaire of Re´union an ibis ?

  • Cécile Mourer-Chauviré1,
  • Roger Bour2 &
  • Sonia Ribes3 

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  1. Centre de Paléontologie stratigraphique et Paléoécologie associé au CNRS (URA 11), Universite Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, 27-43 Bvd du 11 Nov., 69622, Villeurbanne Cedex, France

    Cécile Mourer-Chauviré

  2. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Laboratoire des Reptiles et Amphibiens, 25 rue Cuvier, 75005, Paris, France

    Roger Bour

  3. Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, 1 rue Poivre, 97400, Saint-Denis, La Reéunion, France

    Sonia Ribes

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Mourer-Chauviré, C., Bour, R. & Ribes, S. Was the solitaire of Re´union an ibis ?. Nature 373, 568 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/373568a0

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