Systematic name

Systematic name

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s are the Latin

Latin

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 based names given to bird

Bird

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s and other forms of life

Life

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. Throughout time many species

Species

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 have had their names changed numerous times. This list will detail the names given, when they were given, by whom they were given, and if no longer in used what they are now.

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Archey, Gilbert Edward

Gilbert Edward Archey

Sir Gilbert Edward Archey, C.B.E. was a zoologist, ethnologist, World War I officer, and museum director from New Zealand. He wrote one of the major works on moas, based on his own field work and collection...

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Pachyornis mappini	1941	Mappin's Moa		In use

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Bonaparte, Charles Lucien

Charles Lucien Bonaparte

Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano was a French naturalist and ornithologist.-Biography:...

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Dinornithidae	1853	Moa		In use
Aepyornithidae	1853	Elephant Bird		In use

Burckhardt, Carl Emmanuel

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Aepyornis hildebrandti	1893			In use

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Gadow, Hans Friedrich

Hans Friedrich Gadow

Hans Friedrich Gadow was a German ornithologist.Gadow was born in Pomerania, the son of an inspector of the Prussian royal forests. He studied at the universities of Berlin, Jena and Heidelberg. At Jena he studied under Ernst Haeckel and at Heidelberg under the anatomist Karl Gegenbaur...

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Neornithes	1893	Modern Birds		In use

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Étienne

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories...

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Aepyornis Aepyornis Aepyornis is a genus of aepyornithid, one of two genera of ratite birds endemic to Madagascar known as elephant birds. This animal was the world's largest bird until its extinction, about 1000 years ago.-Description:...				In use
Aepyornis maximus	1851	Great Elephant Bird		In use

H

Houde, Peter W.

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Lithornithiformes Lithornithiformes Lithornithiformes is an extinct order of early paleognath birds. Lithornithiform birds are known from fossils dating to the Upper Paleocene through the Middle Eocene of North America and Europe. All are extinct today....	1989		Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club	In use
Lithornithidae Lithornithidae Lithornithidae are a family of palaeognathous birds from the early Tertiary of the northern hemisphere.-Species:The family was erected by Peter Houde in 1988. It includes the genera Lithornis, Paracathartes, and Pseudocrypturus...	1989		Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club	In Use
Lithornis celetius Lithornis celetius Lithornis celetius is a member of the Lithornithidae family, which was alive during the late Paleocene.-Description:Lithornis celetius was of average size in its genus. It is from the Bangtail Quarry, Sedan Quadrangle, Park County, Montana, USA, and was described by Peter Houde . It is from the...	1989		Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club	In Use

Hutton, Frederick Wollaston

Frederick Wollaston Hutton

Captain Frederick Wollaston Hutton, FRS, was an English scientist who applied the theory of natural selection to explain the origins and nature of the natural history of New Zealand.- Biography :...

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Anomalopteryx antiquus	1892	Little Moa		Anomalopteryx didiformis

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Lydekker, Richard

Richard Lydekker

Richard Lydekker was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.-Biography:...

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Pachyornis Pachyornis Pachyornis is an extinct genus of ratites from New Zealand which belonged to the moa family. Like all ratites it was a member of the order Struthioniformes. The Struthioniformes are flightless birds with a sternum without a keel. They also have a distinctive palate. This genus contains 2 species,...	1891			In use

Linnaeus, Carl

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Aves	1758	Bird	Systema Naturae Systema Naturae The book was one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carolus Linnaeus. The first edition was published in 1735...	In use
Struthio Struthio Struthio is a genus of bird in the order Struthioniformes.-Species:There are ten known species from this genus, of which eight are extinct. There are five more possible species of which trace fossils have been found...	1758	Ostrich	Systema Naturae Systema Naturae The book was one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carolus Linnaeus. The first edition was published in 1735...	In use

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Newton, Alfred

Alfred Newton

Alfred Newton FRS was an English zoologist and ornithologist.Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University from 1866 to 1907...

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Aepyornithiformes	1884	Elephant Bird		In use

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Oliver, Walter

Walter Oliver

Walter Reginald Brook Oliver was an Australian-born New Zealand naturalist, ornithologist, malacologist and museum curator.Born in Launceston, Tasmania, Oliver emigrated with his family to Tauranga in 1896...

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Anomalopteryx parvus	1949	Little Moa		Anomalopteryx didiformis
Anomalopteryx oweni	1949	Little Moa		Anomalopteryx didiformis
Emeus casuarinus	1930	Eastern Moa		Emeus crassus
Emeus huttonii	1930	Eastern Moa		Emeus crassus
Cela	1949			Pachyornis Pachyornis Pachyornis is an extinct genus of ratites from New Zealand which belonged to the moa family. Like all ratites it was a member of the order Struthioniformes. The Struthioniformes are flightless birds with a sternum without a keel. They also have a distinctive palate. This genus contains 2 species,...
Pachyornis australis	1949	Crested Moa		In use

Owen, Richard

Richard Owen

Sir Richard Owen, FRS KCB was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection...

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Lithornis Lithornis Lithornis is a genus of extinct paleognathous birds. Lithornis were able to fly well, but are closely related to today's tinamous and ratites ....	1840			In use
Anomalopteryx didiformis	1844	Little Moa		In use
Dinornis didiformis	1844	Little Moa		Anomalopteryx didiformis
Dinornis parvus	1883	Little Moa		Anomalopteryx didiformis
Euryapteryx curtus	1846	North Island Broad-billed Moa		In use
Euryapteryx geranoides	1848	Stout-legged Moa		In use
Megalapteryx didinus	1883	Upland Moa		In use
Dinornis	1843	Giant Moa		In use
Megalornis	1843	Giant Moa		Dinornis
Palapteryx	1851	Giant Moa		Dinornis
Dinornis novaezealandiae	1843	North Island Giant Moa		In use
Dinornis giganteus	1844	South Island Giant Moa		In use
Dinornis struthoides Dinornis struthoides Dinornis struthoides is a member of the Moa family. It was a ratite and a member of the Struthioniformes Order. The Struthioniformes are flightless birds with a sternum without a keel. They also have a distinctive palate...	1844			In use
Emeus crassus	1846	Eastern Moa		In use
Dinornis crassus	1846	Eastern Moa		Emeus crassus
Dinornis casuarinus	1846	Eastern Moa		Emeus crassus
Dinornis huttonii	1846	Eastern Moa		Emeus crassus
Pachyornis elephantopus	1856	Heavy-footed Moa		In use

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Pycraft, William Plane

William Plane Pycraft

William Plane Pycraft was an English osteologist.Pycraft was born on 13 January 1868 in Great Yarmouth in Norfolk the elder son of William John Pycraft and Margaret Fiddes Pycraft . His father was in the Merchant Navy and drowned at Llanelli on 14 August 1868 when William was only 8 months old...

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Palaeognathae	1900	Old Jaws		In use

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Reichenbach, Ludwig

Ludwig Reichenbach

Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach was a German botanist and ornithologist.He was the son of Johann Friedrich Jakob Reichenbach, the author in 1818 of the first Greek-German dictionary. He was the father of Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, equally a botanist and an eminent orchid...

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Anomalopteryx Anomalopteryx Anomalopteryx is an extinct bird genus known colloquially as the Lesser moa, Little bush moa. or Bush Moa. It stood more than tall and weighed . It inhabited much of the North Island and small sections of the South Island of New Zealand. Its habitat was lowland conifer, broad-leafed, and beech...	1852	Little Moa		In use
Emeus	1852	Eastern Moa		In use

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von Haast, Julius

Julius von Haast

Sir Johann Franz "Julius" von Haast was a German geologist. He founded Canterbury Museum at Christchurch.-Biography:...

Name	Year	Common name	Literature cited	Replaced by
Dinornis Oweni	1886	Little Moa		Anomalopteryx didiformis
Euryapteryx				In Use
Megalapteryx hectori	1886	Upland Moa		Megalapteryx didinus