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Eastern moa
Temporal range: Pleistocene-Holocene
Skeleton in Musee des Confluences, Lyon
Conservation status
Eastern 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: Emeus
Reichenbach, 1852
Species:
E. crassus
Binomial name
Emeus crassus
(Owen, 1846) Reichenbach 1853 non Parker 1895[2][3][4]
Synonyms
List
  • Dinornis crassus Owen, 1846
  • Syornis crassus (Owen 1846) Hutton 1891
  • Euryapteryx crassus (Owen 1846) Hutton 1896 non Benham 1910
  • Dinornis casuarinus Owen, 1846
  • Dinornis huttonii Owen, 1846 (male)
  • Emeus huttonii (Owen 1879) Oliver, 1930
  • Megalapteryx huttoni (Owen 1879) Rothschild 1907
  • Dinornis major (Hutton, 1875)
  • Dinornis rheides (Owen, 1851)
  • Cela rheides (Owen 1850) Rothschild 1907
  • Dinornis casuarinus Oliver 1846
  • Emeus casuarinus (Oliver, 1930)
  • Syornis casuarinus (Owen 1846) bach 1850
  • Anomalopteryx casuarina (Owen 1846) Lydekker 1891
  • Mesopteryx casuarina (Owen 1846) Parker 1895
  • Meionornis casuarinus (Owen 1846) Hutton 1896
  • Cela casuarinus (Owen 1846) Rothschild 1907
  • Mesopteryx didina Hutton 1893 non Dinornis didinus Owen 1883
  • Meionornis didinus (Hutton 1893) Hutton 1896 non Dinornis didinus Owen 1883
  • Meionornis Haast, 1874
  • Mesopteryx Hutton, 1891
  • Syornis Reichenbach, 1850

The eastern moa (Emeus crassus) is an extinct species of moa that was endemic to New Zealand.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Emeus crassus. NZTCS". nztcs.org.nz. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  2. ^ Reichenbach, Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig (1852). Avium systema naturale. Expedition der vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. p. plate XXX.
  3. ^ Brands, Sheila (Aug 14, 2008). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification, Genus Emeus". Project: The Taxonomicon. Retrieved Feb 4, 2009.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Checklist Committee Ornithological Society of New Zealand (2010). "Checklist-of-Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands and the Ross Dependency Antarctica" (PDF). Te Papa Press. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  5. ^ Benes, Josef (1979). Prehistoric Animals and Plants. London, UK: Hamlyn. p. 192. ISBN 0-600-30341-1.
  6. ^ Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2006). Extinct birds of New Zealand. Paul Martinson. Wellington, N.Z.: Te Papa Press. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-909010-21-8. OCLC 80016906.

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