Southern brown kiwi

Southern brown kiwi
Temporal range: Pleistocene-recent
Stewart Island tokoeka
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Apterygiformes
Family: Apterygidae
Genus: Apteryx
Species:
A. australis
Binomial name
Apteryx australis
Shaw, 1813
Subspecies

A. a. lawryi Rothschild, 1893
(Stewart Island tokoeka)
A. a. australis Shaw, 1813
(Haast tokoeka)

The distribution of southern brown kiwi
Synonyms

Apteryx lawryi Rothschild, 1893

The southern brown kiwi, tokoeka, or common kiwi (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.