Tasmanian emu

noun

An extinct subspecies of the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis, once endemic to Tasmania, where it had become isolated during the Late Pleistocene.

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nounTasmanian emu (plural Tasmanian emus)

plural Tasmanian emus

  1. An extinct subspecies of the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis, once endemic to Tasmania, where it had become isolated during the Late Pleistocene.

    The were followed into oblivion by their neighbours the Tasmanian emus (diemenensis) some fifty years later.

    2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 33
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