| Eastern moa Temporal range: Pleistocene-Holocene
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| Skeleton in Musee des Confluences, Lyon | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Order: | †Dinornithiformes |
| Family: | †Emeidae |
| Genus: | †Emeus Reichenbach, 1852 |
| Species: | †E. crassus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Emeus crassus | |
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List
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The eastern moa (Emeus crassus) is an extinct species of moa that was endemic to New Zealand.[5][6]
- ^ "Emeus crassus. NZTCS". nztcs.org.nz. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
- ^ Reichenbach, Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig (1852). Avium systema naturale. Expedition der vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. p. plate XXX.
- ^ Brands, Sheila (Aug 14, 2008). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification, Genus Emeus". Project: The Taxonomicon. Retrieved Feb 4, 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Benes, Josef (1979). Prehistoric Animals and Plants. London, UK: Hamlyn. p. 192. ISBN 0-600-30341-1.
- ^ 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.