TWC Wildlife Centre• Stewart Nimmo • MRD 0747
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Description:
The West Coast Wildlife Centre, at Franz Josef on the southern West Coast of New Zealand, is part of Project Nest Egg, breeding the endangered local species of kiwi known as the rowi. They also keep tuatara, an ancient lineage of lizard-like reptiles extinct on the mainland of New Zealand.
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- Life
- Cellular
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Chordata (Chordates)
- Vertebrata (vertebrates)
- Gnathostomata (jawed fish)
- Osteichthyes (bony fish)
- Sarcopterygii (Lobe-finned fishes)
- Tetrapoda (terrestrial vertebrates)
- Amniota (amniote)
- Reptilia (Reptiles)
- Diapsida (diapsid)
- Lepidosauromorpha
- Rhynchocephalia (rhychocephalians)
- Sphenodontidae (tuataras)
- Sphenodon (Tuatara)
- Lepidosauria (lepidosaur)
- Sphenodon punctatus (Tuatara)
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