Southern brown kiwi
The southern brown kiwi, tokoeka, or common kiwi (Apteryx australis) is a species of kiwi from South Island, New Zealand. Until 2000 it was considered conspecific with the North Island brown kiwi, and still is by some authorities.
| Southern brown kiwi Temporal range: Pleistocene-recent | |
|---|---|
| Stewart Island tokoeka | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Order: | Apterygiformes |
| Family: | Apterygidae |
| Genus: | Apteryx |
| Species: | A. australis |
| Binomial name | |
| Apteryx australis Shaw, 1813 | |
| Subspecies | |
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A. a. lawryi (Rothschild, 1893) | |
| The distribution of southern brown kiwi | |
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