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Bush moa
Temporal range: Pleistocene-Holocene
skeleton
Conservation status
Bush moa
Extinct (~1400s) (NZ TCS)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Dinornithiformes
Family: Emeidae
Genus: Anomalopteryx
Reichenbach 1852
Species:
A. didiformis
Binomial name
Anomalopteryx didiformis
(Owen 1844) Reichenbach 1853[2][3]
Synonyms
  • Dinornis didiformis Owen, 1844
  • Anomalopteryx didiformis (Owen 1844) Lydekker 1891
  • Anomalornis didiformis (Owen 1844) Hutton 1897
  • Dinornis dromioides Owen, 1846 non Oliver 1930
  • Anomalopteryx dromaeoides (Owen 1846) Lydekker 1891
  • Dinornis parvus Owen, 1883
  • Anomalopteryx parva (Owen 1883) Lydekker 1891
  • Dinornis oweni Haast, 1886
  • Anomalornis owenii (Haast 1886) Hutton 1897
  • Pachyornis owenii (Haast 1886) Archey 1941
  • Anomalopteryx oweni (Haast 1886) Oliver 1949
  • Anomalopteryx antiquus Hutton, 1892 (may be a valid predecessor species)
  • Anomalopteryx fortis Hutton, 1893
  • Anomalornis gracilis Hutton 1897 non Dinornis gracilis Owen 1854
  • Anomalornis (Hutton, 1897)
  • Graya (Bonaparte, 1956)

The bush moa, little bush moa, or lesser moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis) is an extinct species of moa from the family Emeidae (lesser moa).

  1. ^ "Anomalopteryx didiformis. NZTCS". nztcs.org.nz. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  2. ^ Brands, Sheila (14 August 2008). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification, Genus Anomalopteryx". Project: The Taxonomicon. Retrieved 4 February 2009.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ B.J. Gill; B.D. Bell; G.K. Chambers; D.G. Medway; R.L. Palma; R.P. Scofield; A.J.D. Tennyson & T.H. Worthy (2010). Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica (PDF) (4th ed.). Wellington, NZ: Te Papa Press. ISBN 978-1-877385-59-9.

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