Eastern moa

Eastern moa; Temporal range: Pleistocene-Holocene
	Skeleton in Musee des Confluences, Lyon
Conservation status
	Extinct
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Infraclass:	Palaeognathae
Order:	†Dinornithiformes
Family:	†Emeidae
Genus:	†Emeus; Reichenbach, 1852
Species:	†E. crassus
Binomial name
	Emeus crassus; (Owen, 1846) Reichenbach 1853 non Parker 1895
Synonyms
	List Dinornis crassus Owen, 1846 ; Syornis crassus (Owen 1846) Hutton 1891 ; Euryapteryx crassus (Owen 1846) Hutton 1896 non Benham 1910 ; Dinornis casuarinus Owen, 1846 ; Dinornis huttonii Owen, 1846 (male) ; Emeus huttonii (Owen 1879) Oliver, 1930 ; Megalapteryx huttoni (Owen 1879) Rothschild 1907 ; Dinornis major (Hutton, 1875) ; Dinornis rheides (Owen, 1851) ; Cela rheides (Owen 1850) Rothschild 1907 ; Dinornis casuarinus Oliver 1846 ; Emeus casuarinus (Oliver, 1930) ; Syornis casuarinus (Owen 1846) Reichenbach 1850 ; Anomalopteryx casuarina (Owen 1846) Lydekker 1891 ; Mesopteryx casuarina (Owen 1846) Parker 1895 ; Meionornis casuarinus (Owen 1846) Hutton 1896 ; Cela casuarinus (Owen 1846) Rothschild 1907 ; Mesopteryx didina Hutton 1893 non Dinornis didinus Owen 1883 ; Meionornis didinus (Hutton 1893) Hutton 1896 non Dinornis didinus Owen 1883 ; Meionornis Haast, 1874 ; Mesopteryx Hutton, 1891 ; Syornis Reichenbach, 1850 ;

The eastern moa (Emeus crassus) was a type of moa. It only lived in New Zealand. It could not fly.^[3]

Description

The Eastern moa was 1.5 to 1.8 metres (4.9–5.9 ft) tall. It could not fly. It had hair-like feathers. It had a long neck and large, powerful legs. It had wide feet.^[3]

Distribution and Habitat

The Eastern moa only lived on the South Island. It lived in the forests, grasslands, dunelands, and shrublands). Humans hunted it into extinction. Like almost all moa, it was gone by the year 1500.^[3]

References

↑ 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.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 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.

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[1] Brands, S. (2008)

[2] 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.

[:0-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 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.

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