Moa-nalo

Moa-nalo
Temporal range: Holocene
Artist's conception of Chelychelynechen quassus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Subfamily: Anatinae
Tribe: Thambetochenini
Genera

Chelychelynechen
Thambetochen
Ptaiochen

The moa-nalo are a group of extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on the larger Hawaiian Islands, except Hawaiʻi itself, in the Pacific. They were the major herbivores on most of these islands until they became extinct after human settlement.