Broad-billed moa

Broad-billed moa
Temporal range: Pleistocene-Holocene
Skull
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: †Dinornithiformes
Family: †Emeidae
Genus: †Euryapteryx
Haast, 1874
Species:
†E. curtus
Binomial name
†Euryapteryx curtus
(Owen, 1846)[3][4]
Synonyms
List
  • Cela Reichenbach 1853 non Moehring 1758
  • Celeus Bonaparte 1856 non Boie 1831
  • Zelornis Oliver 1949
  • Dinornis curtus Owen, 1846
  • Cela curtus (Owen 1846) Reichenbach, 1850
  • Celeus curtus (Owen 1846) Bonaparte, 1865
  • Anomalopteryx curta (Owen 1846) Lydekker 1891
  • Euryapteryx curtus (Owen 1846) Archey 1941
  • Mesopteryx species α Parker 1895
  • Euryapteryx exilis Hutton, 1897
  • Zelornis exilis (Hutton 1897) Oliver 1949
  • Euryapteryx tane Oliver 1949
  • Dinornis gravis Owen, 1870
  • Pachyornis gravis (Owen 1870)
  • Euryapteryx pygmaeus Hutton 1891 non Pachyornis pygmaeus Hutton 1895
  • Emeus gravipes Lydekker, 1891 Euryapteryx gravipes (Lydekker 1891) Oliver 1930
  • Euryapteryx compacta Hutton 1893
  • Emeus crassus Parker 1895 non (Owen 1846) Reichenbach 1853
  • Euryapteryx ponderosa Hamilton 1898 non Hutton 1891
  • Emeus boothi Rothschild 1907
  • Emeus haasti Rothschild 1907 non Palaeocasuarius haasti Rothschild 1907
  • Zelornis haasti (Rothschild 1907) Oliver 1949
  • Euryapteryx haasti (Rothschild 1907)
  • Emeus parkeri Rothschild 1907
  • Euryapteryx kuranui Oliver 1930
  • Euryapteryx geranoides Checklist Committee 1990 non Palapteryx geranoides

The broad-billed moa, stout-legged moa[5][6] or coastal moa (Euryapteryx curtus) is an extinct species of moa that was endemic to New Zealand.

  1. ^ "Euryapteryx curtus curtus. NZTCS". nztcs.org.nz. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  2. ^ "Euryapteryx curtus gravis. NZTCS". nztcs.org.nz. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  3. ^ Owen, R. (1846). A History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds. London, UK: John Van Voorst.
  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. ^ "Stout-legged moa | New Zealand Birds Online".
  6. ^ Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2006). Extinct birds of New Zealand. Paul Martinson. Wellington, N.Z.: Te Papa Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-909010-21-8. OCLC 80016906.