North Island giant moa

species of bird

The North Island giant moa (Dinornis novaezealandiae) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It could not fly.[4]

North Island giant moa
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene- Holocene
Skeleton, Natural History Museum of London
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Dinornithiformes
Family: Dinornithidae
Genus: Dinornis
Species:
D. novaezealandiae
Binomial name
Dinornis novaezealandiae
(Owen 1843)[1][2]
Synonyms
List
  • Dinornis giganteus Owen, 1844
  • Dinornis struthoides Owen, 1844
  • Owenia struthoides (Gray 1855)
  • Dinornis ingens Owen, 1844
  • Dinornis gigas Owen, 1846 spelling lapse
  • Moa ingens (Owen 1844) Reichenbach, 1850
  • Movia ingens (Owen 1844) Reichenbach, 1850
  • Dinornis gracilis Owen, 1855
  • Dinornis dromioides Oliver 1930 non Owen 1846
  • Dinornis hercules Oliver 1949
  • Dinornis gazella Oliver 1949
  • Dinornis excelsus Hutton, 1891
  • Dinornis firmus Hutton, 1891
  • Tylopteryx struthoides (Owen 1844) Hutton, 1891
  • Palapteryx ingens (Owen 1844) Haast 1869

References

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  1. Brands, S. (2008)
  2. Checklist Committee Ornithological Society of New Zealand (2010). "Checklist-of-Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands and the Ross Dependency Antarctica" (PDF). Te Papa Press. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  3. Birds of New Zealand
  4. Grzimek, Bernhard (2003–2004). Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia. Neil Schlager, Donna Olendorf, American Zoo and Aquarium Association (2nd ed.). Detroit: Gale. ISBN 0-7876-5362-4. OCLC 49260053.