North Island Broad-billed Moa

North Island Broad-billed moa
Skull and foot bones
Conservation status
Extinct (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Superorder:	Paleognathae
Order:	Struthioniformes
Family:	Dinornithidae
Genus:	Euryapteryx
Species:	Euryapteryx curtus (Owen, 1846)
Binomial name
Euryapteryx curtus (Owen, 1846)[1]

Euryapteryx curtus, or North Island Broad-billed Moa, or Coastal Moa was a species of Moa. It is now extinct. Fossil evidence suggests that it lived on the North Island only, and its habitat was in the lowlands (dunelands, forests, shrublands, and grasslands).^[2] It was a ratite and a member of the Struthioniformes Order. The Struthioniformes are flightless birds with a sternum without a keel. They also have a distinctive palate. The origin of these birds is becoming clearer as it is now believed that early ancestors of these birds were able to fly and flew to the southern areas that they have been found in.^[2]

Footnotes

1. ^ Brands, Sheila (2008)
2. ^ ^{a b} Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)

References

• Brands, Sheila (14 August 2008). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification, Genus Euryapteryx". Project: The Taxonomicon. http://www.taxonomy.nl/Main/Classification/51298.htm. Retrieved 4 February 2009. 
• Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003). "Moas". In Hutchins, Michael. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. 8 Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins (2 ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. pp. 95–98. ISBN 0 7876 5784 0. 

External links

• Stout-legged Moa. Euryapteryx curtus. by Paul Martinson. Artwork produced for the book Extinct Birds of New Zealand by Alan Tennyson, Te Papa Press, Wellington, 2006
• Life-sized models made for the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa S.044280, S.044281, & S.044282