Dinornis

Dinornis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Dinornithiformes

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Subclassis: Diapsida Cladus: Sauria Infraclassis: Archosauromorpha Cladus: Crurotarsi Cladus: Archosauria Cladus: Avemetatarsalia Cladus: Ornithodira Cladus: Dinosauromorpha Cladus: Dinosauriformes Cladus: Dracohors Cladus: Dinosauria Cladus: Saurischia Cladus: Eusaurischia Subordo: Theropoda Cladus: Neotheropoda Cladus: Averostra Cladus: Tetanurae Cladus: Avetheropoda Cladus: Coelurosauria Cladus: Tyrannoraptora Cladus: Maniraptoromorpha Cladus: Maniraptoriformes Cladus: Maniraptora Cladus: Pennaraptora Cladus: Paraves Cladus: Eumaniraptora Cladus: Avialae Classis/Infraclassis: Aves Cladus: Avebrevicauda Cladus: Pygostylia Cladus: Ornithothoraces Cladus: Ornithuromorpha Cladus: Carinatae Subclassis/Parvclassis: Neornithes Infraclassis/Cohors: Palaeognathae Ordo: †Dinornithiformes

Familia: †Dinornithidae
Genus: †Dinornis
Species: D. novaezelandiae – D. robustus

Name

Dinornis Owen, 1843: 10

Synonyms

• Megalornis Owen, 1843: 19 (junior homonym of Megalornis Gray, 1841: 85)
• Moa Reichenbach, 1853: XXX
• Movia Reichenbach, 1853: XXX
• Palapteryx Owen, 1846: 46
• Owenia Gray, 1855: 152
• Tylopteryx Hutton, 1891

References

Primary references

• Owen, R. 1843. On Dinornis novae-zealandiae Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 11: 8–10, 19, 144–146. BHL DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1843.tb00076.x Reference page. 
• Owen, R. 1846. [Untitled proceedings]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 14: 46–49. BHL Reference page. 
• Reichenbach, H.G.L. 1853?. Handbuch der speciellen Ornithologie. Die vollständigste Naturgeschichte der Vögel or Avium systema naturale lfr.3. viii 36 XXXI pp. Dresden und Leipzig. Expedition Vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.102901 BHL Reference page. 
• Gray, G.R. 1855. Catalogue of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds Contained in the British Museum. Taylor and Francis. London. 192 pp., 4 pp. BHL DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.17986 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Owen, R. 1843. On Dinornis, an extinct genus of tridactyle struthious birds, with descriptions of portions of the skeleton of five species which formerly existed in New Zealand (Part I). Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 3(3): 235–275, plates XVIII–XXX. Communicated 28 November 1843. BHL Reference page. 
• Michael Bunce; Worthy, T.H.; Ford, T.; Hoppitt, W.; Willerslev, Eske; Drummond, Alexei; Cooper, A. 2003. Extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism in the extinct New Zealand moa Dinornis. Nature 425(6954): 172–175. DOI: 10.1038/nature01871
• 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 Reference page. 
• Gill, B.J., Bell, B.D., Chambers, G.K., Medway, D.G., Palma, R.L., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., & Worthy, T.H. 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. 4th ed. Te Tapa Press, Wellington, New Zealand: 500 pp. ISBN 978-1-877385-59-9. ResearchGate Reference page. 

Vernacular names

English: Giant Moa
日本語: モア属