| Eastern Moa | | | Conservation status | | Prehistoric | | Scientific classification | | | | Binomial name | Emeus crassus
(Owen, 1846) | | Synonyms | | Dinornis crassus Owen, 1846
Dinornis casuarinus Owen, 1846
Dinornis huttonii Owen, 1846 (male)
Emeus casuarinus Oliver, 1930
Emeus huttonii Oliver, 1930 (male)
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Typical Classes See below Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates. ...
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Orders Lithornithiformes Ambiornithiformes Gansuiformes Paleocursornithiformes Dinornithiformes Aepyornithiformes Struthoniformes Rheiformes Casuariiformes Apterygiformes Tinamiformes The Paleognathae or paleognaths (old jaws) are one of the two living superorders of birds. ...
Families Struthionidae Casuariidae Dinornithidae Apterygidae Rheidae A ratite is any of a diverse group of large, flightless birds of Gondwanian origin, most of them now extinct. ...
Genera Anomalopteryx (bush moa) Euryapteryx Megalapteryx (upland moa) Dinornis (giant moa) Emeus Pachyornis Moa were giant flightless birds native to New Zealand. ...
Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (January 8, 1793 - March 17, 1879) was a German botanist and ornithologist. ...
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Sir Richard Owen KCB (July 20, 1804–December 18, 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. ...
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Sir Richard Owen KCB (July 20, 1804–December 18, 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. ...
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Sir Richard Owen KCB (July 20, 1804–December 18, 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. ...
1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Sir Richard Owen KCB (July 20, 1804–December 18, 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. ...
1846 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Walter Reginald Brook Oliver (1883–1957) was an Australian-born New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist, and museum curator. ...
Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Walter Reginald Brook Oliver (1883–1957) was an Australian-born New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist, and museum curator. ...
Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
| The Eastern Moa, Emeus crassus, is an extinct species of ratite bird belonging to the moa family. It is nowadays recognized as the only species of the genus Emeus. For other uses, see Extinction (disambiguation). ...
Families Struthionidae (ostriches) Rheidae (rheas) Casuariidae (emus etc. ...
Genera Anomalopteryx (bush moa) Euryapteryx Megalapteryx (upland moa) Dinornis (giant moa) Emeus Pachyornis Moa were giant flightless birds native to New Zealand. ...
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Emeus was of average size, standing 1.5-1.8 m (5 ft) tall. Like other moa, it had vestigial wing bones, hair-like feathers (beige in this case), a long neck and large, powerful legs with very short, strong tarsi. Its feet were exceptionally wide compared to other moas, making it a very slow creature. Soft parts of its body, such as tracheal rings (cartilage) or remnants of skin were found, as well as single bones and complete skeletongs. As they neared the head, the feathers grew shorter, until they finally turned into coarse hair; the head itself was probably bald. For other uses, see Wing (disambiguation). ...
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Closeup on a single white feather A feather is one of the epidermal growths that forms the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on a bird. ...
Human colonists hunted Emeus into extinction with relative ease. Like almost all moa, it was gone by the year 1500. This article is about modern humans. ...
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It has been long suspected that the "species" described as Emeus huttonii and E. crassus were males and females, respectively, of a single species. This has been confirmed by analysis for sex-specific genetic markers of DNA extracted from bone material; the females of E. crassus were 15-25% larger than males (Huynen et al., 2003). This phenomenon — reverse size dimorphism — is not uncommon amongst ratites, being also very pronounced in kiwis. Species See text. ...
References
- Benes Josef. Prehistoric Animals and Plants. Pg. 192. Prague: Artia, 1979.
- Huynen, Leon J.; Millar, Craig D.; Scofield, R. P. & Lambert, David M. (2003): Nuclear DNA sequences detect species limits in ancient moa. Nature 425(6954): 175-178. DOI:10.1038/nature01838 HTML abstract Supplementary information
- Owen, Richard (1846): [Description of Dinornis crassus]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1846: 46.
- Reichenbach, Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig (1852): Avium systema naturale, plate XXX.
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