moa-nalo

English

An artist's rendering of Thambetochen chauliodous and Ptaiochen pau

Noun

moa-nalo (plural moa-nalos)

Any of several extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on some islands of Hawaii from the late Pleistocene until sometime before 1778.
- 1994, Storrs L. Olson, Helen F. James, Descriptions of Thirty-Two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriforms, E. Alison Kay (editor), A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands: Selected Readings II, page 451,
  All of the raptors would have exploited rails, young ibises, and perhaps young moa-nalos, although the eagle was the only one capable of taking adult ibises or moa-nalos.
- 1996, Amoco Oil Company, Sixth North American Paleontological Convention: Abstracts of Papers, page 194,
  We obtained a collection of coprolites from Thambetochen chauliodous, one of four species of flightless Hawaiian waterfowl known collectively as moa-nalos.
- 2006, Guy A. Baldassarre, Eric G. Bolen, Waterfowl Ecology and Management, 2nd Edition, page 41,
  Moa-nalos did not occur on Hawaii, which was occupied by another herbivore, the Giant Hawaiian Goose.
- 2012, Michael Heads, Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics, page 328,
  The moa-nalos are a clade of ducks known from subfossils on the main Hawaiian islands.

Derived terms

turtle-jawed moa-nalo (Chelychelynechen quassus)
small-billed moa-nalo (Ptaiochen pau)
O'ahu moa-nalo (Thambetochen xanion)
Maui Nui large-billed moa-nalo (Thambetochen chauliodous)

单词	moa-nalo
释义	moa-nalo English An artist's rendering of Thambetochen chauliodous and Ptaiochen pau Noun moa-nalo (plural moa-nalos) Any of several extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on some islands of Hawaii from the late Pleistocene until sometime before 1778. 1994, Storrs L. Olson, Helen F. James, Descriptions of Thirty-Two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriforms, E. Alison Kay (editor), A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands: Selected Readings II, page 451, All of the raptors would have exploited rails, young ibises, and perhaps young moa-nalos, although the eagle was the only one capable of taking adult ibises or moa-nalos. 1996, Amoco Oil Company, Sixth North American Paleontological Convention: Abstracts of Papers, page 194, We obtained a collection of coprolites from Thambetochen chauliodous, one of four species of flightless Hawaiian waterfowl known collectively as moa-nalos. 2006, Guy A. Baldassarre, Eric G. Bolen, Waterfowl Ecology and Management, 2nd Edition, page 41, Moa-nalos did not occur on Hawaii, which was occupied by another herbivore, the Giant Hawaiian Goose. 2012, Michael Heads, Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics, page 328, The moa-nalos are a clade of ducks known from subfossils on the main Hawaiian islands. Derived terms turtle-jawed moa-nalo (Chelychelynechen quassus) small-billed moa-nalo (Ptaiochen pau) O'ahu moa-nalo (Thambetochen xanion) Maui Nui large-billed moa-nalo (Thambetochen chauliodous)
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