Megalapteryx tenuipes Lydekker, 1891:251
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Invalid (synonym of M. didinus) (Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022:14)
Distribution
South Island, New Zealand
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lydekker, Richard. (1891). Catalogue of the fossil birds in the British Museum (Natural History). London: British Museum Publishers. 368 pp.
Other references:
Andrews, C. W. (1897). On a Complete Skeleton of Megalapteryx tenuipes Lyd. in the Tring Museum. Novit. Zoolog. 4: 188-194.
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. 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]
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. 198]