Megalapteryx hectori Haast, 1886b:162
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Megalapteryx hectori Haast, 1884: Trans. N.Z. Inst. 16: 577 [nomen nudum]; Megalapteryx hectori Haast, 1886a: Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1885 (35): 541. [nomen nudum]
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of Megalapteryx didinus) (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022:14)
Distribution
South Island, New Zealand
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Haast, J. (1886b). On Megalapteryx hectori, a new gigantic species of apterygian bird. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 12: 161-169.
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. 12-13]
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. 14]
Haast, J. (1884). On the leg bones of a new species of kiwi (Megalapteryx hectori). Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 16: 576-577.
Haast, J. (1886a). Preliminary notice of paper on Megalapteryx hectori. P. Zool. Soc. Lond. for 1885, III, 541.
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. 197]