Euryapteryx curtus
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North Island broad-billed moa | |
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Euryapteryx curtus (Owen, 1846)
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Euryapteryx curtus, or North Island Broad-billed Moa is a species of Moa. Due to fossils found, it is believed to have lived on the North Island only, and its habitat was in the lowlands (dunelands, forests, shrublands, and grasslands).[1]
Footnotes
- ^ Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
References
- Davies, S.J.J.F. (2003). "Rheas". In Hutchins, Michael (ed.). Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol. 8 Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins (2 ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. pp. 96–97. ISBN 0 7976 5784 0.
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