Apteryx Owenii Bird
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Apteryx Owenii Bird
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Protonym: Apteryx Owenii Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt15 no.175 p.94
Taxonomy: Apterygiformes / Apterygidae / Apteryx
Taxonomy Code: liskiw1
Type Locality: New Zealand. Type probably from Nelson or Marlborough, fide Oliver, 1955, N. Z. Birds, ed. 2, p. 53.
Author: Gould
Publish Year: 1847
IUCN Status: Near Threatened
DEFINITIONS
APTERYX
(Apterygidae; Ϯ Brown Kiwi A. australis) Gr. negative prefix α- a- ; πτερυξ pterux, πτερυγος pterugos wing (cf. απτερυγος apterugos without wings); "APTERYX AUSTRALIS ... Alæ rudimenta tantum, monodactyla, subuncialia, unguiculo terminali. ... SOUTHERN APTERYX ... Wings rudiments only, consisting of a single joint or finger, about an inch in length, and terminated by a small claw or spur ... This curious bird is a native of New Zealand" (Shaw 1813); "Apteryx Shaw, Nat. Miscell., 24, 1813, pl. 1057, 1058. Type, by monotypy, Apteryx australis Shaw." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 11).
Var. Apterix, Apternyx.
Synon. Kiwi, Stictapteryx.
owenii
Prof. Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) British comparative anatomist, zoologist who wrote a monograph on the anatomy of the kiwis (Apteryx).
UPPERCASE: current genus
Uppercase first letter: generic synonym
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lowercase: species and subspecies
●: early names, variants, mispellings
‡: extinct
†: type species
Gr.: ancient Greek
L.: Latin
<: derived from
syn: synonym of
/: separates historical and modern geographic names
ex: based on
TL: type locality
OD: original diagnosis (genus) or original description (species)
