Eastern moa, the Glossary
The eastern moa (Emeus crassus) is an extinct species of moa that was endemic to New Zealand.[1]
Table of Contents
40 relations: Beige, Biological specimen, Biology Letters, Dinornis, DNA, Endemism, Extinction, Feather, Female, Foot, Genus, Glacial refugium, Hair, Holocene, Journal of Ornithology, Kiwi (bird), Last Glacial Maximum, Leg, Ludwig Reichenbach, Male, Marlborough District, Māori people, Moa, Nature (journal), Neck, New Zealand, Ornithological Society of New Zealand, Palate, Paleontological Journal, Pleistocene, Richard Owen, Sexual dimorphism, South Island, Species, Species description, Sternum, Tarsometatarsus, Wairau Bar, Walter Oliver, Wing.
Beige
Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan, a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow.
Biological specimen
A biological specimen (also called a biospecimen) is a biological laboratory specimen held by a biorepository for research.
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Biology Letters
Biology Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Society, established in 2005.
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Dinornis
The giant moa (Dinornis) is an extinct genus of birds belonging to the moa family. Eastern moa and Dinornis are extinct birds of New Zealand, Holocene extinctions and Ratites.
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.
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Feather
Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on both avian (bird) and some non-avian dinosaurs and other archosaurs.
Female
An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction.
The foot (feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Glacial refugium
A glacial refugium (plural glacial refugia) is a geographic region which made possible the survival of flora and fauna during ice ages and allowed for post-glacial re-colonization.
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Hair
Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis.
Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
Journal of Ornithology
The Journal of Ornithology (formerly Journal für Ornithologie) is a scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft.
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Kiwi (bird)
Kiwi are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the order Apterygiformes. Eastern moa and Kiwi (bird) are Ratites.
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Last Glacial Maximum
The Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), also referred to as the Last Glacial Coldest Period, was the most recent time during the Last Glacial Period where ice sheets were at their greatest extent 26,000 and 20,000 years ago.
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Leg
A leg is a weight-bearing and locomotive anatomical structure, usually having a columnar shape.
Ludwig Reichenbach
Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (8 January 1793 – 17 March 1879) was a German botanist, ornithologist and illustrator.
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Male
Male (symbol: ♂) is the sex of an organism that produces the gamete (sex cell) known as sperm, which fuses with the larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilisation.
Marlborough District
Marlborough District or the Marlborough Region (or Tauihu), commonly known simply as Marlborough, is one of the 16 regions of New Zealand, located on the northeast of the South Island.
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Māori people
Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa).
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Moa
Moa (order Dinornithiformes) are an extinct group of flightless birds formerly endemic to New Zealand. Eastern moa and Moa are extinct birds of New Zealand, extinct flightless birds, Holocene extinctions, Late Quaternary prehistoric birds and Ratites.
Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
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Neck
The neck is the part of the body on many vertebrates that connects the head with the torso.
New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Ornithological Society of New Zealand
The Ornithological Society of New Zealand (OSNZ), also known as Birds New Zealand, is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the study of birds and their habitats in the New Zealand region.
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Palate
The palate is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals.
Paleontological Journal
Paleontological Journal (Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal) is a monthly peer-reviewed Russian journal of paleontology established in 1959.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
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South Island
The South Island (Te Waipounamu, 'the waters of Greenstone', officially South Island or Te Waipounamu or historically New Munster) is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island and sparsely populated Stewart Island.
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Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Species description
A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.
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Sternum
The sternum (sternums or sterna) or breastbone is a long flat bone located in the central part of the chest.
The tarsometatarsus is a bone that is only found in the lower leg of birds and some non-avian dinosaurs.
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Wairau Bar
The Wairau Bar, or Te Pokohiwi, is a gravel bar formed where the Wairau River meets the sea in Cloudy Bay, Marlborough, north-eastern South Island, New Zealand.
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Walter Oliver
Walter Reginald Brook Oliver (7 September 1883 – 16 May 1957) was a New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist, malacologist, and museum curator.
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Wing
A wing is a type of fin that produces lift while moving through air or some other fluid.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_moa
Also known as Dinornis casuarinus, Dinornis crassus, Dinornis huttonii, Dinornis major, Dinornis rheides, Emeus, Emeus Crassus, Emeus casuarinus, Emeus huttoni, Emeus huttonii, Meionornis, Mesopteryx (bird), Syornis.