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APTERYGIDAE
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Kiwis
(1:5)
APTERYX
Shaw,
1813
F
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Apteryx australis
Shaw, 1813; type by monotypy
1
Apteryx haastii
2
,
3
Potts, 1872
Great Spotted Kiwi
i
NW (formerly W) South Island (New Zealand) [Potts, 1872 #9742]
Apteryx owenii
4
Gould, 1847
Little Spotted Kiwi
i
New Zealand
Apteryx mantelli
5
A.D. Bartlett, 1852
Northern Brown Kiwi/North Island Brown Kiwi
i
North Island (New Zealand)
Apteryx australis
6
Southern Brown Kiwi/Tokoeka
australis
Shaw, 1813
v
SW and S South Island (New Zealand)
lawryi
Rothschild, 1893
7
i
Stewart I. (New Zealand)
Apteryx rowi
8
Tennyson, Palma, H.A. Robertson, Worthy & B.J. Gill, 2003
Okarito Brown Kiwi
i
WC coast of South Island (New Zealand) [Tennyson, 2003 #3822]
1 Sequence of species follows Burbidge
et al.
(2003) [Burbidge, 2003 #571] and Shepherd & Lambert (2008) [Shepherd, 2008 #11760].
2 Dual original spellings; for details see David
et al.
(2009) [David, 2009 #11541].
3 Citation in Mayr (1979) [Mayr, 1979 #2568] is not to the earliest reference; we supply this after the range statement.
4 North Island form, not usually recognised, called
?
iredalei
Mathews, 1935 [Mathews, 1935 #2529].
5 Formerly included in
A. australis
but see Burbidge
et al.
(2003) [Burbidge, 2003 #571] and Gill
et al.
(2010) [Gill, 2010 #12348].
6 Forms a superspecies with
A. mantelli
and
A. rowi
; see Gill
et al.
(2010) [Gill, 2010 #12348].
7 For recognition see Burbidge
et al.
(2003) [Burbidge, 2003 #571] and Tennyson
et al.
(2003) [Tennyson, 2003 #3822].
8 For treatment as a separate species from
A. australis
see Burbidge
et al.
(2003) [Burbidge, 2003 #571] and Gill
et al.
(2010) [Gill, 2010 #12348].
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