Back Moa an uheldirioù Breton Hochlandmoa German موآی بلندبوم Persian מואת הרמה HE Mala moa Croatian Felföldi moa Hungarian Megalapteryx didinus Italian Megalapteryx didinus NB Megalapteryx didinus Portuguese Лесной малый моа Russian
| Upland moa Temporal range: Pleistocene-Holocene
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| Mounted skeleton from Honeycomb Hill Cave, collection of Te Papa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Clade: | Notopalaeognathae |
| Order: | †Dinornithiformes |
| Family: | †Megalapterygidae Bunce et al., 2009 |
| Genus: | †Megalapteryx Haast 1886[2] |
| Species: | †M. didinus
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| †Megalapteryx didinus | |
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The upland moa (Megalapteryx didinus) is an extinct species of moa that was endemic to New Zealand. It is a ratite, a grouping of flightless birds with no keel on the sternum. It was the last moa species to become extinct, vanishing around 1500 CE, and was predominantly found in alpine and sub-alpine environments.[4]
- ^ "Megalapteryx didinus. NZTCS". nztcs.org.nz. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
- ^ a b Brands, Sheila J. (1989). "The Taxonomicon". Zwaag, Netherlands: Universal Taxonomic Services. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
- ^ Tennyson, Alan J. D. (2006). Extinct birds of New Zealand. Paul Martinson. Wellington, N.Z.: Te Papa Press. ISBN 978-0-909010-21-8. OCLC 80016906.