Title: Centenaire de la fondation du Muséum d'histoire naturelle 10 juin 1793 - 10 juin 1893 : volume commémoratif
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France)
Subjects: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France); Natural history
Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/centenairedelafo00musu/#page/n276/mode/1up
Author John Gerrard Keulemans. Published by Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (France)
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The King Island emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae minor) is an extinct subspecies of emu that was endemic to King Island, which is situated in the Bass Strait between mainland Australia and Tasmania. Its closest relative may be the extinct Tasmanian emu (D. n. diemenensis), as they belonged to a single population until less than 14,000 years ago, when Tasmania and King Island were still connected. The small size of the King Island emu may be an example of insular dwarfism. Hunting pressure and fires started by early settlers on King Island likely drove the wild population to extinction by 1805. The two captive specimens in Paris both died in 1822 and are believed to have been the last of their kind.
Order: Casuariiformes
Family: Dromaiidae
Genus: Dromaius
Species: Dromaius novaehollandiae
Subspecies: Dromaius novaehollandiae minor (Spencer, 1906)
Synonyms:
Casuarius diemenianus Jennings,1827
Dromaeus parvulus Broderip, 1842
Dromaeus minor Spencer, 1906
Dromaius peroni Rothschild, 1907
Dromaius bassi Legge, 1907
Dromaius parvulus Mathews, 1910
Dromiceius spenceri Mathews, 1912
Peronista peroni (Mathews, 1913)
Dromaius diemenianus (Morgan & Sutton, 1928)