Apteryx owenii iredalei Mathews, 1935:180
North Island little spotted kiwi
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Stictapteryx owenii iredalei Mathews, 1935:180
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of monotypic A. owenii) (Dickinson, 2003; Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022:22)
Last record: 1875 (Hume & Walters, 2012:23)
Distribution
Tararua Range, North Island, New Zealand
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Only known from the holotype (Hume & Walters, 2012:24).
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Mathews, Gregory M. (1935). "Remarks on Apteryx australis and Stictapteryx owenii, with necessary changes of nomenclature. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 55: 179-180.
Other references:
Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2010). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica (4th ed.). Ornithological Society of New Zealand & Te Papa Press, Wellington. [p. 22]
Checklist Committee (OSNZ). (2022). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand (5th edition). Ornithological Society of New Zealand Occasional Publication No. 1. Wellington: Ornithological Society of New Zealand. [p. 22]
Dickinson, E. C. (ed.). (2003). The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. London: Christopher Helm.
Herbert, J. and Daugherty, C. H. (2002). Genetic variation, systematics and management of kiwi, pp. 11-34. In: Overmars, F. (ed.). Some early 1990's studies in kiwi (Apteryx spp.) genetics and management. Science & Research Internal Report 191. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Conservation.
Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser.
Kieren J. Mitchell, Bastien Llamas, Julien Soubrier, Nicolas J. Rawlence, Trevor H. Worthy, Jamie Wood, Michael S. Y. Lee, Alan Cooper. Ancient DNA reveals elephant birds and kiwi are sister taxa and clarifies ratite bird evolution. Science, 2014 DOI: 10.1126/science.1251981
Shepherd, L. D. and Lambert, D. M. (2008). Ancient DNA and conservation: lessons from the endangered kiwi of New Zealand. Mol. Ecol. 17: 2174-2184.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0042384