A specimen of little bush moa Anomalopteryx didiformis (Owen, 1844), Emeidae Bonaparte, 1854 from the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia

Zlatozar Boev

Zlatozar Boev https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8049-7509

4 December 2018 · volume 32 · [issue 1] · pp. 3–5 · PDF [full text]

Abstract: A complete right tarsometatarsus from an unknown site of New Zealand was identified as little bush moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis (Owen, 1844)), possibly an adult male individual.

Keywords: Dinornithiformes, moa, Anomalopteryx didiformis, extinct birds, New Zealand

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