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Tasmanian emu en · NOUN

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1. An extinct subspecies of the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae diemenensis, once endemic to Tasmania, where it had become isolated during the Late Pleistocene.
   • The were followed into oblivion by their neighbours the Tasmanian emus (diemenensis) some fifty years later. 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 33:

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