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Apteryx sp. nov. 'Eastern kiwi'

Eastern kiwi

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct or Invalid (synonym)

 

Distribution

South Island, New Zealand

 

Anatomy & Morphology

 

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

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]

Holdaway RN and Worthy TH (1997) A reappraisal of the late Quaternary fossil vertebrates of Pyramid Valley Swamp, North Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 24, 69–121.

Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.

Worthy TH (1998a) Quaternary fossil faunas of Otago, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28, 421–521.

Worthy TH (1998b) The Quaternary fossil avifauna of Southland, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28, 537–589.

Worthy TH and Holdaway RN (2002) The Lost World of the Moa. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

 

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