The Mascarene Islands (English: /mæskəˈriːn/, French: Mascareignes) or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean...
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Annie Mascarene (6 June 1902 – 19 July 1963) was an Indian independence activist, politician and lawyer from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. She was a member...
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12°S 61°E / 12°S 61°E / -12; 61 The Mascarene Plateau is a submarine plateau in the Indian Ocean, north and east of Madagascar. The plateau extends...
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The Mascarene parrot or mascarin (Mascarinus mascarinus) is an extinct species of parrot that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Réunion in the western...
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The Mascarene teal (Anas theodori), also known as Sauzier's teal and Mauritian duck, is an extinct dabbling duck that formerly occurred on the islands...
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Zoysia tenuifolia (redirect from Mascarene grass)
native grass type to the Mascarene Island. The epithet tenuifolia is commonly used to describe plant specimens in Mascarene Islands and Zoysia tenuifolia...
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The Mascarene martin or Mascarene swallow (Phedina borbonica) is a passerine bird in the swallow family that breeds in Madagascar and in the Mascarene Islands...
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The Mascarene petrel (Pseudobulweria aterrima) is a medium-sized, dark petrel. Also sometimes known as the Mascarene black petrel, this species was known...
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Phyllanthus tenellus (redirect from Mascarene Island Leaf Flower)
family, Phyllanthaceae. It is commonly called Mascarene Island leaf flower as it is native to the Mascarene Islands. It is often a weed in flower beds,...
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The Mascarene coot (Fulica newtonii) is an extinct species of coot that inhabited the Mascarene islands of Mauritius and Réunion. Long known from subfossil...
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The Mascarene grey parakeet, Mauritius grey parrot, or Thirioux's grey parrot (Psittacula bensoni), is an extinct species of parrot which was endemic...
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The Mascarene Basin is an oceanic basin in the western Indian Ocean. It was formed as the tectonic plate of the Indian subcontinent pulled away from the...
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Jean-Paul Mascarene (c. 1684 – 22 January 1760) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as commander of the 40th Regiment of...
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The Mascarene swiftlet or Mauritius swiftlet (Aerodramus francicus) is a species of swift in the family Apodidae. It is found in Mauritius and Réunion...
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Mauritius sheldgoose (redirect from Mascarene Swan)
sheldgoose may have descended from Egyptian geese that colonised the Mascarene islands. One contemporary account states that the Mauritius sheldgoose...
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Small Mauritian flying fox (redirect from Lesser mascarene flying-fox)
species of megabat. It lived on the islands of Réunion and Mauritius in the Mascarene Islands of the Indian Ocean. The junior synonym Pteropus rubricollis was...
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The Mascarene paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone bourbonnensis) is a species of bird in the monarch-flycatcher family Monarchidae. It is endemic to the...
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Audubon's shearwater (redirect from Mascarene Shearwater)
as Baillon's shearwater, tropical shearwater, Bannerman's shearwater, Mascarene shearwater and Persian shearwater; some of these are considered distinct...
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List of Madagascar and Indian Ocean Island animals extinct in the Holocene (redirect from List of Mascarene and Seychellois animals extinct in the Holocene)
of East Africa. Other Indian Ocean islands near Madagascar include the Mascarene Islands (split between the Republic of Mauritius and the French department...
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Mauritian flying fox (redirect from Greater Mascarene flying fox)
The Mauritian flying fox (Pteropus niger), also known as Greater Mascarene flying fox or Mauritius fruit bat is a large megabat species endemic to Mauritius...
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Grey trembler (redirect from White Mascarene Starling)
then. It was believed to be an extinct starling from Madagascar, or the Mascarenes, described by Henry Ogg Forbes under the name Necropsar leguati and sketched...
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The Mascarene grass frog (Ptychadena mascareniensis), or Mascarene ridged frog, is a species of frog in the family Ptychadenidae. It is found in sub-Saharan...
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The Mascarene crow (Euploea euphon) is a species of Nymphalidae butterfly in the Danainae subfamily. It is found in Mauritius and Réunion. The larvae...
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the broad-billed parrot, the Mascarene grey parakeet, the Mauritius blue pigeon, the Mauritius scops owl, the Mascarene coot, the Mauritian shelduck,...
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Abbott's booby (redirect from Mascarene booby)
from them around 22 million years ago. A subfossil subspecies from the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues was named P. a. nelsoni in 2023. Abbott's...
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Desforges-Boucher 4 November 1759 14 July 1767 Governor-general of the Mascarene Islands 9 Jean-Daniel Dumas 14 July 1767 27 November 1768 Jean Guillaume...
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Echo parakeet (redirect from Mascarene Parrakeet)
parrot endemic to the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius and formerly Réunion. It is the only living native parrot of the Mascarene Islands; all others have...
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The Mascarene white-eye has been split into the following species: Réunion grey white-eye, Zosterops borbonicus Mauritius grey white-eye, Zosterops mauritianus...
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continent. The Hawaiian Islands and Galapagos Islands in the Pacific, and Mascarene Islands in the south Indian Ocean are examples. Continental fragments...
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Giant tortoise (section Mascarenes giant tortoises)
particularly the Chaco tortoise (Chelonoidis chiliensis). The recently extinct Mascarene giant tortoises (Cylindraspis) are thought to have belonged to their own...
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