Emeus huttonii (Owen, 1879)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Dinornis huttoni Owen, 1879: Extinct Wingless Birds New Zealand: 430 – Hamilton Swamp, Otago.; Megalapteryx huttoni (Owen); Rothschild 1907, Extinct Birds: 199.; Emeus huttonii (Owen); Oliver 1930, New Zealand Birds, 1st edition: 49. Unjustified emendation.
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of E. crassus) (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022:16,17)
Distribution
South Island, 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]
Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292. [p. 277]
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. 199-200, pl. 41]