Moa timur Rentang waktu: Pleistosen-Holosen
Kerangka di Musee des Confluences, Lyon
Status konservasi
Punah  (1400s) (NZ TCS)[1]
Klasifikasi ilmiah
Kerajaan:	Animalia
Filum:	Chordata
Kelas:	Aves
Infrakelas:	Palaeognathae
Ordo:	†Dinornithiformes
Genus:	†Emeus Reichenbach, 1852
Spesies:	†E. crassus
Nama binomial
†Emeus crassus (Owen, 1846) Reichenbach 1853 non Parker 1895[2][3][4]
Sinonim
List Dinornis crassus Owen, 1846 Syornis crassus (Owen 1846) Hutton 1891 Euryapteryx crassus (Owen 1846) Hutton 1896 non Benham 1910 Dinornis casuarinus Owen, 1846 Dinornis huttonii Owen, 1846 (male) Emeus huttonii (Owen 1879) Oliver, 1930 Megalapteryx huttoni (Owen 1879) Rothschild 1907 Dinornis major (Hutton, 1875) Dinornis rheides (Owen, 1851) Cela rheides (Owen 1850) Rothschild 1907 Dinornis casuarinus Oliver 1846 Emeus casuarinus (Oliver, 1930) Syornis casuarinus (Owen 1846) bach 1850 Anomalopteryx casuarina (Owen 1846) Lydekker 1891 Mesopteryx casuarina (Owen 1846) Parker 1895 Meionornis casuarinus (Owen 1846) Hutton 1896 Cela casuarinus (Owen 1846) Rothschild 1907 Mesopteryx didina Hutton 1893 non Dinornis didinus Owen 1883 Meionornis didinus (Hutton 1893) Hutton 1896 non Dinornis didinus Owen 1883 Meionornis Haast, 1874 Mesopteryx Hutton, 1891 Syornis Reichenbach, 1850

Moa timur (Emeus crassus) adalah sebuah spesies moa punah yang endemik ke Pulau Selatan^[5] di Selandia Baru.^[6][7] Burung ini memiliki tinggi 1,5 hingga 1,8 meter (4,9–5,9 ft), and dan berat 36 hingga 79 kilogram.^[8]

Referensi

1. ↑ "Emeus crassus. NZTCS". nztcs.org.nz. Diakses tanggal 29 April 2023.
2. ↑ Reichenbach, Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig (1852). Avium systema naturale. Expedition der vollständigsten Naturgeschichte. hlm. plate XXX.
3. ↑ Brands, Sheila (Aug 14, 2008). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification, Genus Emeus". Project: The Taxonomicon. Diakses tanggal Feb 4, 2009.^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]}
4. ↑ Checklist Committee Ornithological Society of New Zealand (2010). "Checklist-of-Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands and the Ross Dependency Antarctica" (PDF). Te Papa Press. Diakses tanggal 4 January 2016.
5. ↑ Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003). "Moas". Dalam Hutchins, Michael (ed.). Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol. 8 Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins (Edisi 2). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. hlm. 95–98. ISBN 0-7876-5784-0.
6. ↑ Benes, Josef (1979). Prehistoric Animals and Plants. London, UK: Hamlyn. hlm. 192. ISBN 0-600-30341-1.
7. ↑ Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2006). Extinct birds of New Zealand. Paul Martinson. Wellington, N.Z.: Te Papa Press. hlm. 34. ISBN 978-0-909010-21-8. OCLC 80016906.
8. ↑ Tennyson, Alan; Martinson, Paul (2006-01-01). Extinct Birds of New Zealand. Te Papa Press. ISBN 978-0-909010-21-8.

Pranala luar

• Eastern Moa. Emeus crassus. by Paul Martinson. Artwork produced for the book Extinct Birds of New Zealand, by Alan Tennyson, Te Papa Press, Wellington, 2006