moa-nalo
noun1
Any of several extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on some islands of Hawaii from the late Pleistocene until sometime before 1778.
- 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.1994, Storrs L. Olson, Helen F. James, “Descriptions of Thirty-Two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part I. Non-Passeriforms”, in E. Alison Kay, editor, A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands: Selected Readings II, page 451:
- 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.
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- Moa-nalos did not occur on Hawaii, which was occupied by another herbivore, the Giant Hawaiian Goose.2006, Guy A. Baldassarre, Eric G. Bolen, Waterfowl Ecology and Management, 2nd edition, page 41:
- The moa-nalos are a clade of ducks known from subfossils on the main Hawaiian islands.2012, Michael Heads, Molecular Panbiogeography of the Tropics, page 328:
- Derived terms
- turtle-jawed moa-nalo, small-billed moa-nalo, O'ahu moa-nalo, Maui Nui large-billed moa-nalo