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Giant malleefowl

Index Giant malleefowl

The giant malleefowl (Leipoa gallinacea) is an extinct megapode that was native to Australia. [1]

20 relations: Australia, Charles Walter De Vis, Chinchilla, Queensland, Darling Downs, Dromornithidae, Genyornis, Gerard Frederick van Tets, Keel (bird anatomy), Long bone, Malleefowl, Megapode, Naracoorte Caves National Park, New South Wales, Plio-Pleistocene, Queensland, Sexual dimorphism, South Australia, Sternum, Synonym (taxonomy), Wombeyan Caves.

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Charles Walter De Vis

Charles Walter de Vis (Birmingham, England, 9 May 1829 – Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 30 April 1915), — Australian Dictionary of Biography known as Devis before about 1882, was an English zoologist, ornithologist., — Encyclopedia of Australian science herpetologist,"De Vis".

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Chinchilla, Queensland

Chinchilla is a town and a locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Darling Downs

The Darling Downs is a farming region on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range in southern Queensland, Australia.

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Dromornithidae

Dromornithidae (the dromornithids), also commonly referred to as thunder birds or demon ducks, were a clade of large, flightless Australian birds of the Oligocene through Pleistocene epochs.

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Genyornis

Genyornis newtoni was a large, flightless bird that lived in Australia.

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Gerard Frederick van Tets

Jonkheer Gerard Frederick van Tets (19 January 1929 – 14 January 1995), otherwise known as Jerry van Tets, was a twentieth century British, Canadian and Australian ornithologist and palaeontologist.

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Keel (bird anatomy)

A keel or carina (plural carinae) in bird anatomy is an extension of the sternum (breastbone) which runs axially along the midline of the sternum and extends outward, perpendicular to the plane of the ribs.

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Long bone

The long bones are those that are longer than they are wide.

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Malleefowl

The malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) is a stocky ground-dwelling Australian bird about the size of a domestic chicken (to which it is distantly related).

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Megapode

The megapodes, also known as incubator birds or mound-builders, are stocky, medium-large, chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet in the family Megapodiidae.

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Naracoorte Caves National Park

Naracoorte Caves National Park is a national park near Naracoorte in the Limestone Coast tourism region in the south-east of South Australia (Australia).

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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Plio-Pleistocene

The term Plio-Pleistocene refers to an informally described geological pseudo-period, which begins about 5 million years ago (mya) and, drawing forward, combines the time ranges of the formally defined Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs—marking from about 5 mya to about 12 kya.

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Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.

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South Australia

South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.

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Sternum

The sternum or breastbone is a long flat bone located in the center of the chest.

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Synonym (taxonomy)

In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that applies to a taxon that (now) goes by a different scientific name,''ICN'', "Glossary", entry for "synonym" although the term is used somewhat differently in the zoological code of nomenclature.

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Wombeyan Caves

The Wombeyan Caves are caves that have formed in marble, in the Wombeyan Karst Conservation Reserve, New South Wales, Australia.

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Giant Malleefowl, Leipoa gallinacea, Progura, Progura gallinacea, Progura naracoortensis.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_malleefowl

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