Thambetochen chauliodous Olson & Wetmore, 1976:252
Maui Nui moa-nalo
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Holocene
Distribution
Maui & Molokai, Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Olson, Storrs L. and Wetmore, Alexander. (1976). Preliminary diagnoses of two extraordinary new genera of birds from Pleistocene deposits in the Hawaiian Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washignton 89(18): 247-258.
Other references:
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser.
Iwaniuk, Andrew N. et al. (2004). A comparative test of the correlated evolution of flightlessness and relative brain size in birds. J. Zool, Land. 263: 317-327.
James, Helen F. and Burney, David A. (1997). The Diet and Ecology of Hawaii's Extinct Flightless Waterfowl: Evidence from Coprolites. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 62(2): 279-297.
Olson, Storrs L. and James, Helen F. (1991). Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriformes. Ornithological Monographs, No. 45: 1-88.
Sorenson, Michael D. et al. (1999). Relationships of the extinct moa-nalos, flightless Hawaiian waterfowl, based on ancient DNA. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266: 2187-2193.
Stearns, Harold T. (1973). Geologic setting of the fossil goose bones found on Molokai Island, Hawaii. Occasional Papers, Bernice P. Bishop Museum 24(10): 155-163.
Watanabe, Junya. (2017). Quantitative discrimination of flightlessness in fossil Anatidae from skeletal proportions. The Auk 134(3): 672-695.
Ziegler, A. C. (1972). Ancient Molokai Goose Bones Stir World of Biology. Honolulu: Star-Bulletin and Advertiser, p. A 6-7, Feb. 27 (Report of interview with Dr. Ziegler by Bruce Benson).