Dinornis queenslandiae De Vis, 1884:23
Queensland moa
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pachyornis queenslandiae (De Vis); Oliver 1949, Dom. Mus. Bull. 15: 80.; Dromiceius queenslandiae (De Vis); A.H. Miller 1963, Rec. South Austr. Museum 14(3): 417.
A synonym of D. elephantopus (Scarlett, 1969; Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022).
Conservation Status
Invalid
Distribution
Queensland, Australia (in error)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
De Vis, Charles W. (1884). The moa (Dinornis) in Australia. Proc. R. Soc. Qld 1: 23-28.
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. 14]
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. 16]
Hutton, F. W. (1893). On Dinornis (?) queenslandiae. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 8(2): 7-10.
Scarlett, Ron J. (1969). On the alleged Queensland moa, Dinornis queenslandiae De Vis. Mem. Qld. Mus. 15(3): 207-212.
Tyrberg, Tommy. (2008). The Late Pleistocene Continental Avian extinction – an evaluation of the fossil evidence. Oryctos 7: 249-269.
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