Taxonavigation

Familia: Apterygidae
Genus: Apteryx
Species (5): A. australis – A. haastii – A. mantelli – A. owenii – A. rowi

Name

Apteryx Shaw, 1813: pls. 1057, 1058

Type species: Apteryx australis Shaw, 1813

• Fixation: monotypy

References

• Shaw, G.K. & Nodder, F.P. 1789–1813. The Naturalist's Miscellany, or coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described from nature. Nodder & Co., London. 24 vols., unnumbered pages in 287 parts. BHL Reference page. 
• Heath, A.C.G. 2010. A review of ectoparasites of Apteryx spp. (kiwi) in New Zealand, with new host records, and the biology of Ixodes anatis (Acari: Ixodidae). Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa 21: 147–159. ISSN: 1173-4337

• Worthy, T.H., Worthy, J.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., Salisbury, S.W., Hand, S.J. & Scofield, R.P. 2013. Miocene fossils show that kiwi (Apteryx, Apterygidae) are probably not phyletic dwarves. Pp. 63-80 in: Göhlich, U.B. & Kroh, A. (eds.), Paleornithological Research 2013: Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Vienna, 2012. Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Vienna, 2013. ResearchGate Reference page. 

Vernacular names

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