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Anomalopteryx oweni Haast, 1886

Owen's moa

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Dinornis oweni Haast, 1886: Trans. Zool. Soc. London 12(5): 171 – Whangarei.; Cela oweni Haast, 1886; Anomalornis owenii (Haast); Hutton 1897, Trans. N.Z. Inst. 29: 549. Unjustified emendation.; Pachyornis owenii (Haast); Archey 1941, Bull. Auck. Inst. Museum 1: 44. Unjustified emendation.

 

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym of A. didiformis)

 

Distribution

New Zealand

 

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]

Millener, P. R. (1982). And then there were twelve: the taxonomic status of Anomalopteryx oweni. Notornis 29(3): 165-170.

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. 206]

 

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