Dinornis gazella Oliver, 1949:166
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Now considered a synonym of Dinornis novaezealandiae. Was previously synonymised with D. struthioides (Worthy, 1994), itself now considered a synonym of D. novaezealandiae.
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of D. novaezealandiae) (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022:18)
Distribution
North Island, New Zealand
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: NMNZ S.00107 (pelvis) (Worthy, 1994; Ioane-Warren et al., 2023)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Oliver, W. R. B. (1949). The moas of New Zealand and Australia. Dominion Museum Bulletin 15: 1-206.
Other references:
Brodkorb, Pierce. (1963). Catalogue of fossil birds. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum biological sciences 7(4): 179-293.
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. 18]
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. 18]
Ioane-Warren, Melanie et al. (2023). Augustus Hamilton’s fossil collection at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Tuhinga 34: 47-56. https://doi.org/10.3897/tuhinga.34.97731
Scarlett, R. J. (1972). Bones for the New Zealand archaeologist. New Zealand: Canterbury Museum, Christchurch.
Worthy, Trevor H. (1994). Reappraisal of Dinornis (Aves: Dinornithiformes) species—a morphometric analysis. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 21(2): 113-134.
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.
Yaldwyn, J. C. (1979). The types of W. R. B. Oliver's moas and notes on Oliver's methods of measuring moa bones. In: Anderson, A. ed. Birds of a feather. NZ Archaeological Association monograph 11.