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Table 1 Details about individual kiwi (Apteryx sp.) analysed in this study

From: Hybridisation in kiwi (Apteryx; Apterygidae) requires taxonomic revision for the Great Spotted Kiwi

Name/museum registration number

Past species identification

Species identification

(this study)

Collection location

AllportsM

Rowi × LSK (F1)

Rowi × LSK (F1)

Allports Island (ex. Franz Josef)

Jess

Rowi × LSK (F1)

Rowi × LSK (F1)

Allports Island (ex. Okarito)

AllportsChick

Rowi × LSK (F2)

Rowi × LSK (F2)

Allports Island (offspring of Jess and AllportsM)

BC0102_3

(Rowi × LSK) × Rowi (BC1)

Rowi × LSK (BC3 +)

Okarito

NMNZ OR.30701

Rowi × LSK or Rowi × GSK

Later generation hybrid between Rowi × GSK or Rowi × LSK

Okarito (1945‒1947)

CM AV2828

(A. haasti syntype)

GSK

Rowi × LSK

Between Lake Mapourika and the Southern Alps (1870‒1871)

CM AV2829

(A. haasti syntype)

GSK

Rowi × GSK or Rowi × LSK

Upper reaches of the Okarito River (1870‒1871)

A_maxima neotype (NMNZ OR.22663)

GSK

GSK

Near Charleston

  1. Past species identification is based on morphology and/or published genetic results. Species identification in this study is based on all available information
  2. LSK Little Spotted Kiwi, GSK Great Spotted Kiwi, NMNZ Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa