Maui Nui large-billed moa-nalo Temporal range: Holocene
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Reconstruction of species’ appearance: Maui Nui large-billed moa-nalo (left), small-billed moa-nalo (right) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Anseriformes |
Family: | Anatidae |
Genus: | †Thambetochen |
Species: | †T. chauliodous
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Binomial name | |
†Thambetochen chauliodous Olson & Wetmore, 1976
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The Maui Nui large-billed moa-nalo (Thambetochen chauliodous), also known as the Maui Nui moa-nalo, is one of two species of moa-nalo in the genus Thambetochen. Moa-nalo are a group of extinct, flightless, large goose-like ducks, which evolved in the Hawaiian Islands of the North Pacific Ocean.[1]