North Island Brown Kiwi

SCI Name:  Apteryx mantelli
Protonym:  Apteryx Mantelli Proc.Zool.Soc.London(1850) (1850), Pt18 no.218 p.275 pl.30 fig.3,4 pl.31 fig.2
Taxonomy:  Apterygiformes / Apterygidae / Apteryx
Taxonomy Code:  nibkiw1
Type Locality:  North Island.
Author:  Bartlett, AD
Publish Year:  1852
IUCN Status:  Vulnerable

DEFINITIONS

APTERYX
(Apterygidae; Ϯ Brown Kiwi A. australis) Gr. negative prefix α- a- ; πτερυξ pterux, πτερυγος pterugos  wing (cf. απτερυγος apterugos  without wings); "APTERYX AUSTRALIS  ...  Alæ rudimenta tantum, monodactyla, subuncialia, unguiculo terminali.  ...  SOUTHERN APTERYX  ...  Wings rudiments only, consisting of a single joint or finger, about an inch in length, and terminated by a small claw or spur  ...  This curious bird is a native of New Zealand" (Shaw 1813); "Apteryx Shaw, Nat. Miscell., 24, 1813, pl. 1057, 1058. Type, by monotypy, Apteryx australis Shaw." (Peters, 1931, I, p. 11).
Var. Apterix, Apternyx.
Synon. Kiwi, Stictapteryx.

mantelli
Walter Baldock Durant Mantell (1820-1895) British amateur geologist, naturalist, settled in New Zealand 1840, founder and secretary of the New Zealand Institute (Apteryx, ‡Porphyrio).