North Island giant moa
| North Island giant moa Temporal range: Late Pleistocene- Holocene | |
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| Skeleton, Natural History Museum of London | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Order: | †Dinornithiformes |
| Family: | †Dinornithidae |
| Genus: | †Dinornis |
| Species: | †D. novaezealandiae |
| Binomial name | |
| Dinornis novaezealandiae | |
| Synonyms | |
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List
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| Measurements | |||
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| North Island [3] | |||
| Length |  |
240 cm (94 in) | |
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300 cm (120 in) | ||
| Weight | |
55–88 kg (121.3–194.0 lb) | |
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78–249 kg (172.0–549.0 lb) | ||
The North Island giant moa (Dinornis novaezealandiae) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It could not fly.[4]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Brands, S. (2008)
- ↑ Checklist Committee Ornithological Society of New Zealand (2010). "Checklist-of-Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands and the Ross Dependency Antarctica" (PDF). Te Papa Press. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 June 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ↑ Birds of New Zealand
- ↑ Grzimek, Bernhard (2003–2004). Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia. Neil Schlager, Donna Olendorf, American Zoo and Aquarium Association (2nd ed.). Detroit: Gale. ISBN 0-7876-5362-4. OCLC 49260053.
