Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Galliformes > Megapodiidae > Megapodius > Megapodius decollatusMegapodius decollatus (New Guinea Megapode)The New Guinea scrubfowl (Megapodius decollatus) is a species of bird in the Megapodiidae family. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. This species was formerly known as Megapodius affinis but Roselaar,1994,Bulletin of the Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam,14,no.2,pp. 9–36 showed that Megapodius affinis A.B.Meyer,1874 refers to M.reinwardt. |
| Adult Weight [1] | 1.473 lbs (668 g) | | Female Weight [1] | 1.369 lbs (621 g) | | Male Weight [1] | 1.576 lbs (715 g) | | Weight Dimorphism [1] | 15.1 % |  | | Clutch Size [1] | 18 | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 5 years | | Snout to Vent Length [1] | 13 inches (33 cm) |
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♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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