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    ton of dead possums was removed after the installation of a mammal-proof fence, and the Maungatautari Restoration Project. Fauna Birds of New Zealand Butterflies...
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    other mammal species. Fauna of New Zealand Lowe, David J. (November 2008). "Polynesian settlement of New Zealand and the impacts of volcanism on early Maori...
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    New Zealand has 1157 described spider species, with an estimated total fauna of 2000 species. Over 97 per cent are endemic, and the rest have been introduced...
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    mammals. New Zealand has developed a national Biodiversity Action Plan to address conservation of considerable numbers of threatened flora and fauna within...
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    New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island (Te...
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    species of native flora and fauna. All frogs and reptiles, ~90% of insects, ~80% of vascular plants, and ~25% of bird species found in New Zealand are only...
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    The New Zealand parrot family, Strigopidae, consists of at least three genera of parrots – Nestor, Strigops, the fossil Nelepsittacus, and probably the...
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    kake (female) in Māori, is a species of sea lion that is endemic to New Zealand and primarily breeds on New Zealand's subantarctic Auckland and Campbell...
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    named Mauisaurus. Fauna of New Zealand List of geckos of New Zealand Conservation Status of New Zealand Reptiles, 2021 (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification...
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  • This is a list of the native living mammals of New Zealand. It does not include introduced species, nor extinct Saint Bathans fauna. There are around 51...
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    Fossils of the genus are known from the early Miocene (19-16 million years ago) aged St Bathans Fauna of New Zealand. Frogs of New Zealand  Frogs portal...
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    The New Zealand giraffe weevil, Lasiorhynchus barbicornis, is a straight-snouted weevil in the subfamily Brentinae, endemic to New Zealand. L. barbicornis...
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  • New Zealand English (NZE) is the variant of the English language spoken and written by most English-speaking New Zealanders. Its language code in ISO...
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    A number of introduced species, some of which have become invasive species, have been added to New Zealand's native flora and fauna. Both deliberate and...
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    Heracles inexpectatus (category Endemic fauna of New Zealand)
    Heracles inexpectatus is a giant fossil parrot species from New Zealand, assigned to a monotypic genus Heracles, that lived during the early Miocene approximately...
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    nutrients past them in the water layer. In New Zealand there are a wide range of strategies the midge uses as the fauna are so diverse. With this diversity in...
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    The fauna of New Guinea comprises a large number of species of mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, invertebrates and amphibians. As the world's largest and...
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    Titanomis (category Endemic fauna of New Zealand)
    (PDF). Fauna of New Zealand. 14: 1–264 – via Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. Hudson, G. V. (1928). The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. Wellington:...
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    contemporary Saint Bathans Fauna in New Zealand. The oldest unambiguous fossils of the living genus date to the Miocene of New Zealand. A second extinct genus...
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  • that maintain New Zealand's ecosystems, enable natural flora, fauna and fungi to flourish, and protect soil and catchments for a range of production and...
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    2023. "New Zealand dabchick". New Zealand Birds Online. Retrieved 23 Mar 2024. Gray, George Robert (1843-01-01). "Fauna of New Zealand. List of the Birds...
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    The New Zealand long-tailed bat (Chalinolobus tuberculatus), also known as the long-tailed wattled bat and pekapeka tou-roa is one of 15 species of bats...
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    St Bathans fauna is found in the lower Bannockburn Formation of the Manuherikia Group of Central Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand. It comprises...
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    hectori) is one of four dolphin species belonging to the genus Cephalorhynchus. Hector's dolphin is the only cetacean endemic to New Zealand, and comprises...
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    is the largest of three roughly parallel alpine lakes running north–south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin on New Zealand's South Island....
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    Huhu beetle (category Endemic fauna of New Zealand)
    reticularis) is a longhorn beetle endemic to New Zealand. It is the heaviest beetle found in New Zealand. To Māori, the larval form is known as huhu (also...
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    New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, near the centre of the water hemisphere. It consists of...
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  • Luteuthis dentatus (category Endemic fauna of New Zealand)
    (1999). The marine fauna of New Zealand - Octopoda (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). NIWA Biodiversity memoir. Wellington: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric...
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    Māui dolphin (category Marine fauna of New Zealand)
    subspecies of the Hector's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori)—New Zealand's only endemic cetacean. Māui dolphins are only found off the west coast of New Zealand's...
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    novaezealandiae, (Māori: whe) known as the New Zealand mantis or the New Zealand praying mantis, is a species of praying mantis which is, as both the scientific...
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