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Dinornis queenslandiae De Vis, 1884:23

Queensland moa

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Pachyornis queenslandiae (De Vis); Oliver 1949, Dom. Mus. Bull. 15: 80.; Dromiceius queenslandiae (De Vis); A.H. Miller 1963, Rec. South Austr. Museum 14(3): 417.

 

A synonym of D. elephantopus (Scarlett, 1969; Checklist Committee (OSNZ), 2022).

 

Conservation Status

Invalid

 

Distribution

Queensland, Australia (in error)

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

De Vis, Charles W. (1884). The moa (Dinornis) in Australia. Proc. R. Soc. Qld 1: 23-28.

 

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. 14]

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. 16]

Hutton, F. W. (1893). On Dinornis (?) queenslandiae. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 8(2): 7-10.

Scarlett, Ron J. (1969). On the alleged Queensland moa, Dinornis queenslandiae De Vis. Mem. Qld. Mus. 15(3): 207-212.

Tyrberg, Tommy. (2008). The Late Pleistocene Continental Avian extinction – an evaluation of the fossil evidence. Oryctos 7: 249-269.

http://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2018/01/whither-queensland-moa-recalling.html

 

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