Taxonavigation

Familia: †Emeidae
Subfamilia: †Emeinae
Genus: Euryapteryx
Species: Euryapteryx gravis

Name

Euryapteryx gravis (Owen, 1869)

• Original genus: Dinornis
• Original status: valid species
• Primary type: Lectotype
  • Fixation: Designated by Worthy & Scofield, 2012: 131

References

• Bunce, M. et al. 2009: The evolutionary history of the extinct ratite moa and New Zealand Neogene paleogeography. PNAS 106(49): 20646–20651. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906660106 Reference page.  [Implied synonymy with Euryapteryx curtus]

• Worthy, T.H. 1992. A re-examination of the species Euryapteryx geranoides (Owen) including comparisons with other emeiin moas (Aves: Dinornithiformes). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 22(1): 19-40. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.1992.10420815 Reference page.  [As Euryapteryx geranoides]

• Worthy, T.H. 2005. Rediscovery of the types of Dinornis curtus Owen and Palapteryx geranoides Owen, with a new synonymy (Aves: Dinornithiformes). Tuhinga 16: 33-43. Abstract and full article (PDF). Reference page.  [See p. 40]

• 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.  [See p. 131, as Euryapteryx curtus gravis]