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Post by Melanie on Nov 8, 2005 13:34:32 GMT
former names: Dinornis maximus, Euryapterix geranoides The Stout–legged Moa was a squat bird with short legs and broad pelvis lived in most parts of the South Island and a few northern regions. It was the dominant species east of the Alps in the South Island and and the coastal areas of the South eastern North Island. This bird is larger than the Coastal and Eastern Moa. The Coastal Moa, the Eastern Moa and the Stout–legged Moa had a diet probably dominated by fruit and leaves and larger insects. All Moa species, as in all birds, had a syrinx, bird’s vocal organ. Worthy and Holdaway postulate that because the Coastal Moa, the Eastern Moa and the Stout–legged Moa, together with the Upland Moa had the smallest olfactory chambers, they had the greatest vocal abilties. They perhaps needed loud calls in their mixed dense grassland, shrubland and forest environments.   www.nzbirds.com/birds/moastoutlegged.html |
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Post by another specialist on Nov 8, 2005 14:59:53 GMT
Greater Broad-Billed Moa Euryapteryx gravis Richard Owen's deduction in 1839, made from just a fragment of bone, that gigantic "struthious" birds had inhabited New Zealand, quickly acuired renown as an outstanding achievement in comparative anatomy. It is not so widely realized that the deduction was almost never made. Without a measure of persistence from Dr John Rule, the bone's owner, the privilege of introducing moas to the scientific world might never have fallen to Owen. Rule was told that his bone came from a colossal eagle, recently extinct but known to the Maori (New Zealand natives) as a movie and the relic was put before Owen with the claim that it came from a bird of flight once inhabiting New Zealand. On unwrapping the fragment in Rule's presence, Owen immediately realized two things. First, although clearly an object of some age, the fossilization process was yet to take place; secondly, the fragment did not come from any bird capable of flight - the great eagle was a myth. Busy that afternoon and anxious to deliver a scheduled lecture, Owen was disinclined to investigate further, venturing the opinion that before him was nothing more interesting than an ordinary beef bone. Presumably, he paid little attention to Rule's argument that structure was not as might be expected in a mammal's bone but was more suggestive of a bird. As Owen prepared to dismiss the matter, Rule produced something that really caught the great man's eye - a greenstone mere, the warclub of the Maori. This characteristic weapon of a formidable people was generally used for quick thrusts but the heel was designed for the downward delivery of a coup de grâce to the skull or back of neck as a stumbling opponent fell forwards. To European eyes these short clubs were objects of great curiosity and beauty; perhaps it is not being unfair to Owen to add that they were also pieces fo considerable value, a fact with which he would hardly have been unacquainted. Softened by his interest, Owen now felt more disposed to pay the bone due attention and agreed that, should it be left, he would give it close study after his lecture. easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~design.machine-tanya/moa.htm |
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Post by sebbe67 on Jan 15, 2006 20:56:54 GMT
Burley Lesser Moa probably never seen alive by Europeans, likely extinct ca. 1650; last rumoured sighting in 1850 flightless island steppe/forest ratite endemic to South Island, New Zealand fossil and egg specimens in various museums disappeared after Polynesian colonization and deforestation; probably also hunted www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog358/extinctb/LBBMoa.htm |
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Post by another specialist on Feb 23, 2006 8:03:11 GMT
References: Fuller, E. Extinct Birds of the World QL676.8.F85 1987 ISBN 0-8160-1833-2 p.23 Greenway, J. C. Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World QL676.7.G7 1967 p.104 King, W. Endangered Birds of the World; The ICBP Bird Red Data Book QL676.7.K56 1981 ISBN 0-87474-584-5 Preamble 8 www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog358/extinctb/LBBMoa.htm |
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Post by another specialist on Feb 23, 2006 8:03:53 GMT
also known as Greater Broad-billed Moa
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Post by another specialist on Jul 24, 2008 14:51:09 GMT
former names: Dinornis maximus, Euryapterix geranoides Also D. Altus was later included as D. Maximus  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 25, 2008 8:07:38 GMT
Euryapteryx gravis (Owen 1870), was Dinornis gravis Owen 1870
= Euryapteryx geranoides (Owen, 1848)
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Post by RSN on Apr 29, 2012 2:11:34 GMT
 by user FunkMonk from Wikipedia |
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Post by surroundx on May 7, 2014 5:48:03 GMT
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Post by Peter on Jan 3, 2015 21:28:08 GMT
source:
Worthy, T. H.; Scofield, R. P. (2012). "Twenty-first century advances in knowledge of the biology of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes): a new morphological analysis and moa diagnoses revised". New Zealand Journal of Zoology 39 (2): 87–153. doi:10.1080/03014223.2012.665060.
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Post by Peter on Jan 3, 2015 21:31:52 GMT
AbstractThe exact species status of New Zealand's extinct moa remains unknown. In particular, moa belonging to the genus Euryapteryx have been difficult to classify. We use the DNA barcoding sequence on a range of Euryapteryx samples in an attempt to resolve the species status for this genus. We obtained mitochondrial control region and the barcoding region from Cytochrome Oxidase Subunit I (COI) from a number of new moa samples and use available sequences from previous moa phylogenies and eggshell data to try and clarify the species status of Euryapteryx. Using the COI barcoding region we show that species status in Euryapteryx is complex with no clear separation between various individuals. Eggshell, soil, and bone data suggests that a Euryapteryx subspecies likely exists on New Zealand's North Island and can be characterized by a single mitochondrial control region SNP. COI divergences between Euryapteryx individuals from the south of New Zealand's South Island and those from the Far North of the North Island exceed 1.6% and are likely to represent separate species. Individuals from other areas of New Zealand were unable to be clearly separated based on COI differences possibly as a result of repeated hybridisation events. Despite the accuracy of the COI barcoding region to determine species status in birds, including that for the other moa genera, for moa from the genus Euryapteryx, COI barcoding fails to provide a clear result, possibly as a consequence of repeated hybridisation events between these moa. A single control region SNP was identified however that segregates with the two general morphological variants determined for Euryapteryx; a smaller subspecies restricted to the North Island of New Zealand, and a larger subspecies, found on both New Zealand's North and South Island.
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Post by Peter on Jan 3, 2015 23:08:32 GMT
Hume J.P. & Walters M. (2012). Extinct birds. London: T & AD Poyser, 544 pp. ISBN 978-1-4081-5725-1.
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Post by surroundx on Oct 20, 2015 11:30:38 GMT
Wood, Jamie R., Rawlence, Nicolas J., Rogers, Geoffrey M., Austin, Jeremy J., Worthy, Trevor H. and Cooper, Alan. (2008). Coprolite deposits reveal the diet and ecology of the extinct New Zealand megaherbivore moa (Aves, Dinornithiformes). Quaternary Science Reviews 27(27-28): 2593-2602. |
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Post by koeiyabe on Dec 12, 2015 15:06:12 GMT
 "The Earth Extinct Fauna (in Japanese)" by Tadaaki Imaizumi (1986) |
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Post by surroundx on Nov 16, 2017 10:53:53 GMT
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Post by Sebbe on Oct 27, 2024 8:24:34 GMT
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