Emeus casuarinus (Owen, 1846:47)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Dinornis casuarinus Owen, 1846:47 (basionym); Syornis casuarinus (Owen, 1846:47); Anomalopteryx casuarina (Owen, 1846:47); Mesopteryx casuarina (Owen, 1846:47); Cela casuarinus (Owen, 1846:47); Meionornis casuarinus (Owen, 1846:47); Cela casuarinus (Owen, 1846:47)
A complete synonymy taken from (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022:16,17):
Dinornis casuarinus Owen, 1846: Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1846 (14): 47 – Waikouaiti, Otago.; Syornis casuarinus (Owen); Reichenbach 1850, Avium Syst. Nat.: 30.; Anomalopteryx casuarina (Owen); Lydekker 1891, Cat. Fossil Birds Brit. Museum: 257.; Mesopteryx casuarina (Owen); Parker 1895, Trans. Zool. Soc. London 13(11): 377.; Cela casuarinus (Owen); Rothschild 1907, Extinct Birds: 207.; Emeus casuarinus (Owen); Oliver 1930, New Zealand Birds, 1st edition: 48.; Meionornis casuarinus (Owen); Hutton 1896, Trans. N.Z. Inst. 28: 636.
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of E. crassus)
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. 15]
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. 16-17]
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. 207]
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.