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Southern brown kiwi
| Southern brown kiwi Temporal range: Pleistocene-recent[1]
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| Stewart Island tokoeka | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Order: | Apterygiformes |
| Family: | Apterygidae |
| Genus: | Apteryx |
| Species: | A. australis
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| Binomial name | |
| Apteryx australis | |
| Subspecies[4] | |
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A. a. lawryi Rothschild, 1893 | |
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| The distribution of southern brown kiwi | |
| Synonyms | |
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Apteryx lawryi Rothschild, 1893[5] | |
The southern brown kiwi, tokoeka, or common kiwi[3] (Apteryx australis) is a species of kiwi from South Island of New Zealand. Until 2000 it was considered conspecific with the North Island brown kiwi, and still is by some authorities.
- ^ "Apteryx australis (southern brown kiwi)". PBDB.
- ^ BirdLife International (2019). "Apteryx australis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T22678122A155418586. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T22678122A155418586.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ a b Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
- ^ Brands, S. (2008)
- ^ Gill; et al. (2010). "Checklist of the birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica" (4th ed.). Te Papa Press. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
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