South Island giant moa

South Island giant moa
Temporal range: Late Holocene
Skeleton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: †Dinornithiformes
Family: †Dinornithidae
Genus: †Dinornis
Species:
†D. robustus
Binomial name
Dinornis robustus
(Owen, 1846)[1]
Synonyms
List
  • Dinornis ingens var. robustus Owen, 1846
  • Palapteryx robustus (Owen 1846) Owen 1851a
  • Dinornis maximus Haast 1869
  • Dinornis altus Owen 1879
  • Dinornis validus Hutton 1891
  • Dinornis potens Hutton 1891
  • Dinornis strenuus Hutton 1893
  • Dinornis torosus Hutton 1891
  • Palapteryx plenus Hutton 1891

The South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It could not fly.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Grzimek, Bernhard (2003–2004). Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia. Neil Schlager, Donna Olendorf, American Zoo and Aquarium Association (2nd ed.). Detroit: Gale. ISBN 0-7876-5362-4. OCLC 49260053.