Apteryx

Belongs within: Palaeognathae.

Apteryx, kiwis, is a genus of long-billed, nocturnal, flightless birds found in New Zealand.

<==Apteryx Shaw 1813 (see below for synonymy)CC10
    |  i. s.: A. fusca Potts 1873 (n. d.)CC10
    |         A. major Ellman 1861 (n. d.)CC10
    |         ‘Dromiceius’ novaezealandiae Lesson 1828 (n. d.)CC10
    |--+--A. haastii Potts 1872WH02 (see below for synonymy)
    |  `--A. owenii Gould 1847WH02 (see below for synonymy)
    `--+--*A. australis Shaw 1813CC10, BKB15, CC10 [=*Apternyx australisCC10]
       |    |--A. a. australisCC10
       |    `--A. a. lawryi Rothschild 1893 [incl. A. maxima Buller 1891 non Sclater & Hochstetter 1861]CC10
       |--A. mantelli Bartlett 1852WH02 [=A. australis mantelliCC10, A. mantelliiCC10; incl. A. bulleri Sharpe 1888CC10]
       `--A. rowi Tennyson, Palma et al. 2003BKB15, CC10 [=A. rowii Burbidge, Colbourne et al. 2003 (n. n.)CC10]

Apteryx Shaw 1813 [=Apternix Agassiz 1846, Apternyx Swainson 1837; incl. Kiwi Verheyen 1960, Pseudapteryx Lydekker 1891, Stictapteryx Iredale & Matthews 1926; Apterygidae, Apterygiformes, Apterygoidea]^CC10

Apteryx haastii Potts 1872^WH02 [=A. haasti^CC10; incl. A. grandis Grieve 1913^CC10, A. maxima Sclater & Hochstetter 1861 (n. o.)^CC10, A. maximus^CC10]

Apteryx owenii Gould 1847^WH02 [=A. oweni^CC10, *Kiwi owenii^CC10, *Stictapteryx owenii^CC10; incl. Apteryx fusca Rowley 1875 non Potts 1873^CC10, *Pseudapteryx gracilis Lydekker 1891^CC10, Stictapteryx owenii iredalei Mathews 1935^CC10, Apteryx mollis Potts 1873^CC10, A. oweni occidentalis Rothschild 1893^CC10]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BKB15] Burleigh, J. G., R. T. Kimball & E. L. Braun. 2015. Building the avian tree of life using a large-scale, sparse supermatrix. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 53–63.

[CC10] Checklist Committee (OSNZ). 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica 4^th ed. Ornithological Society of New Zealand and Te Papa Press: Wellington.

[WH02] Worthy, T. H., & R. N. Holdaway. 2002. The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric life of New Zealand. Indiana University Press: Bloomington (Indiana).