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Post by another specialist on Jun 5, 2005 5:49:50 GMT
Subfossil bones of De Lautour's Duck = Biziura delautouri found at 5 sites on the North islands and 3 sites on the South island. It was described in 1892 and named for Dr H. De Lautour of Oamuru, who helped the Canterbury Museum obtain moa bones from the area.
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Post by Melanie on Jun 5, 2005 21:23:26 GMT
aka New Zealand musk duck
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Post by Melanie on Jun 5, 2005 21:25:51 GMT
there is also a wrong spelling
right spelling is Biziura delautouri
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Post by another specialist on Jun 6, 2005 3:57:24 GMT
there is also a wrong spelling right spelling is Biziura delautouri thank you i've now corrected in original entry |
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Post by another specialist on Jun 6, 2005 3:57:41 GMT
Biziura delautouri
Forbes 1891
Holocene of New Zealand
Primary materials: Type: Tarsometatarsus
Storrs L. Olson,
Notes on subfossil Anatidae from New Zealand, including a new species of pink-eared duck Malacorhynchus
Emu 77 (1977): 132-135
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Post by another specialist on Nov 2, 2005 9:51:16 GMT
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Post by cryptodude100 on Jun 5, 2006 12:24:03 GMT
It was somewhat larger than the Australian Musk Duck,Biziura lobata. It was larger than B. lobata and had relatively longer legs.
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Post by sebbe67 on Dec 30, 2006 13:25:10 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jul 20, 2008 4:40:45 GMT
 Extinct birds : an attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times : that is, within the last six or seven hundred years : to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction (1907) |
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Post by another specialist on Jul 20, 2008 4:54:57 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jul 20, 2008 4:55:52 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jul 20, 2008 4:56:34 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Sept 8, 2008 11:34:49 GMT
 The Lost World of the Moa By T. H. Worthy, Richard N. Holdaway, Rod Morris |
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Post by Peter on Sept 15, 2013 16:08:45 GMT
Occurs in Maori middens, post c. AD 1280.
Source: Tyrberg, T. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions. In: Turvey, S.T. (editor) (2009). Holocene extinctions. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
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Post by Melanie on Jun 11, 2014 18:00:09 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Jun 11, 2014 18:13:00 GMT
THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION BY H O FORBES OF THE EXTINCT NEW-ZEALAND MUSK DUCK BIZIURA-DELAUTOURI G S Cowles Bulletin of The British Ornithologists' Club 90: 166-168 (1970) biostor.org/reference/112743 |
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Post by Melanie on Jun 11, 2014 18:18:26 GMT
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Post by surroundx on Jan 31, 2015 11:31:53 GMT
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Post by surroundx on Mar 22, 2015 10:52:00 GMT
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