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| Mantell's moa Temporal range: Pleistocene- Late Holocene | |
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| from the collection of Auckland Museum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Order: | †Dinornithiformes |
| Family: | †Emeidae |
| Genus: | †Pachyornis |
| Species: | †P. geranoides |
| Binomial name | |
| †Pachyornis geranoides | |
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Mantell's moa (Pachyornis geranoides) also known as Mappin's moa or moa ruarangi,[3] is an extinct species of moa from the North Island of New Zealand.[4] It inhabited lowland environments like shrublands, grasslands, dunelands, and forests.[5] Moa are an extinct group of ratites, flightless birds with a sternum without a keel. They also have a distinctive palate.
Its name is in honour of New Zealand naturalist and politician Walter Mantell.[citation needed]
Description
[edit]Mantell's moa had a length of 54 cm (21 in), and weighed between 17 to 36 kg (37 to 79 lb).[6] Another estimate gives 31.8 kg for males and 51.4 kg for females.[7] Height has been estimated at 1.11 meters.[8]
Footnotes
[edit]- ↑ Brands, S. (2008)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Mantell's moa | New Zealand Birds Online".
- ↑ Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2006). Extinct birds of New Zealand. Paul Martinson. Wellington, N.Z.: Te Papa Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-909010-21-8. OCLC 80016906.
- ↑ Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
- ↑ "Mantell's moa | Moa ruarangi | New Zealand Birds Online". www.nzbirdsonline.org.nz. Retrieved 2026-04-28.
- ↑ Olson, Valérie A.; Turvey, Samuel T. (2013-06-07). "The evolution of sexual dimorphism in New Zealand giant moa ( Dinornis ) and other ratites". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 280 (1760) 20130401. doi:10.1098/rspb.2013.0401. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 3652460. PMID 23576789.
- ↑ Atkinson, I. a. E.; Greenwood, R. M. (1989). "Relationships between Moas and Plants". New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 12: 67–96. ISSN 1177-7788.
References
[edit]- Brands, Sheila (Aug 14, 2008). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification, Genus Euryapteryx". Project: The Taxonomicon. Retrieved Feb 4, 2009.
- Davies, S.J.J.F. (2003). "Moas". In Hutchins, Michael (ed.). Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol. 8 Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins (2 ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. pp. 95–98. ISBN 0-7876-5784-0.