Southern brown kiwi

Southern brown kiwi
Temporal range: Pleistocene-recent[1]
Stewart Island tokoeka
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Apterygiformes
Family: Apterygidae
Genus: Apteryx
Species:
A. australis
Binomial name
Apteryx australis
Shaw, 1813[3]
Subspecies[4]

A. a. lawryi (Rothschild, 1893)
(Stewart Island tokoeka)
A. a. australis Shaw 1813
(Haast tokoeka)

The distribution of southern brown kiwi
Synonyms
  • A. a. lawryi (Rothschild 1893)[5]
    • Apteryx maxima Buller 1891 non-Hutton 1871
    • Apteryx lawryi Rothschild 1893
  • A. a. australis Shaw 1813

The southern brown kiwi, tokoeka, or common kiwi[3] (Apteryx australis) is a species of kiwi from South Island, New Zealand. Until 2000 it was considered conspecific with the North Island brown kiwi, and still is by some authorities.

  1. ^ "Apteryx australis (southern brown kiwi)". PBDB.
  2. ^ BirdLife International (2019). "Apteryx australis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T22678122A155418586. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22678122A155418586.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
  4. ^ Brands, S. (2008)
  5. ^ Gill; et al. (2010). "Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica" (PDF) (4th ed.). Te Papa Press. Retrieved 22 May 2016.