Anomalopteryx dromaeoides (Owen, 1844)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Dinornis dromaeoides Owen, 1844 (Mar.): Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1843 (11): 145. Nomen nudum.; Dinornis dromaeoides Owen, 1844 (Jun.): Trans. Zool. Soc. London 3(3): 253 – Poverty Bay.; Dinornis dromioides Owen, 1846: Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1846 (14): 46. Unjustified emendation.; Dinornis (Palapteryx) dromioides Owen, 1846: Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1846 (14): 47. Unjustified emendation.; Anomalopteryx dromaeoides (Owen); Lydekker 1891, Cat. Fossil Birds Brit. Museum: 266.
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of Anomalopteryx didiformis)
Distribution
New Zealand
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
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. 12]
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. 15]
Rothschild, Lionel Walter. (1907). Extinct birds: an attempt to write in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times, that is within the last six or seven hundred years: to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. London: Hutchinson & Co. XXIX + 243 pp. [p. 194]
Worthy, Trevor H. (2000). Two late-Glacial avifaunas from eastern North Island - Te Aute and Wheturau Quarry. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 30(1): 1-26.