Casuarius est genus avium infraclassis Palaeognatharum (avium sine volatu, carina in sterno carentium), quae in silvis tropicis Novae Guineae (Papuae Novae Guineae et Indonesiae), Nusa Tenggara Orientali, Insulis Moluccis, et Australia septentrionali orientalique endemicae sunt.^[3]

Sunt tres taxorum exstantium species, quarum frequentissima, Casuarius casuarius, tertia ab altissima et secunda a gravissima avi est, solum Struthioni camelo et Dromaio novaehollandiae minor.

Casuarii plerumque fructibus vescuntur, sed omnes species penitus omnivorae sunt, atque varias plantas (surculis et seminibus graminum non exclusis), cum fungis, invertebratis, parvisque vertebratis capiunt. Hominibus cautissimi sunt, sed irritati vel territi, ambobus canibus hominibusque vulnera gravia etiam adeo letalia infligere possunt. Casuarius quidem periculosissima mundi avis saepe appellatur.^[4]

Taxinomia, systematica, evolutio[recensere | fontem recensere]

Genus Casuarius a Maturino Iacobo Brisson, zoologo Francico, in Ornithologie (1760) erectum est.^[5] Typus generis est Casuarius casuarius.^[6]

Notae[recensere | fontem recensere]

Bibliographia[recensere | fontem recensere]

• Borrell, Brendan. 2008. "Invasion of the Cassowaries." Smithsonian Magazine.
• Brands, Sheila. 2008. "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification – Genus Casuarius." The Taxonomicon. Editio interretialis.
• Clark, Philip. 1990. "Stay in Touch." The Sydney Morning Herald.
• Clements, James. 2007. The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World. Ed. sexta. Ithacae Novi Eboraci: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-4501-9.
• Crome, F., et L. Moore. 1988. "The cassowary's casque." Emu 88 (2): 123–24. doi:10.1071/MU9880123. PDF.
• Davies, S. J. J. F. 2002. Ratites and Tinamous: Tinamidae, Rheidae, Dromaiidae, Casuariidae, Apterygidae, Struthionidae. Lamina colotara a Michael J. Bamford; adumbrationes et tabulae a Danika Loomes. Oxoniae et Novi Eboraci: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-854996-2.
• Davies, S. J. J. F. 2003. "Birds I: Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins." In Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, 8. Ed secunda, ed .Michael Hutchins, 75–77. Farmington Hills Michiganiae: Gale Group. ISBN 0-7876-5784-0.
• Diamond, J. 1997. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Novi Eboraci: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-03891-2.
• Gilliard, E. Thomas. 1958. "Cassowaries." In Living Birds of the World, 23–24. Novi Eboraci: Doubleday & Company.
• Gotch, A. F. (1979) 1995]. "Cassowaries." In Latin Names Explained: A Guide to the Scientific Classifications of Reptiles, Birds & Mammals. Novi Eboraci: Facts on File. ISBN 0-8160-3377-3.
• Harmer, S. F., et A. F. Shipley. 1899. The Cambridge Natural History. Macmillan and Co..
• Kofron, Christopher P. 1999. "Attacks to humans and domestic animals by the southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) in Queensland, Australia." Journal of Zoology 249, no. 4 (December): 375–81. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1999.tb01206.x.
• Kofron, Christopher P. 2003. "Case histories of attacks by the southern cassowary in Queensland." Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49 (1): 335–38.
• Kofron, Christopher P., et Angela Chapman. 2006. "Causes of mortality to the endangered Southern Cassowary Casuarius casuarius johnsonii in Queensland, Australia." Pacific Conservation Biology 12: 175–9.
• Mack, Andrew L., et J. Jones. 2003. "Low-frequency vocalizations by cassowaries (Casuarius spp.)." The Auk 120 (4): 1062–68. doi:10.1642/0004-8038(2003)120[1062:lvbccs]2.0.co;2.
• Mack, Andrew L., author. 2014. Searching for pekpek: cassowaries and conservation in the New Guinea rainforest. New Florence Pennsylvaniae: Cassowary Conservation & Publishing, LLC. ISBN 9780989390309, ISBN 0989390306.
• Naish, Darren, et Richard M. Perron. 2014. "Structure and function of the cassowary's casque and its implications for cassowary history, biology and evolutio.n" Historical Biology. doi:10.1080/08912963.2014.985669.
• Owen, J. 2003. "Does Rain Forest Bird "Boom" Like a Dinosaur?" National Geographic News. [ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1104_031104_cassowary.html Editio interretialis.]
• Paul, Gregory S. 1988. Predatory Dinosaurs of the World. Novi Eboraci: Simon and Schuster.
• Perron, Richard M. 2016. "Taxonomy of the Genus Casuarius." Quantum Conservation ISBN 978-3-86523-272-4.
• Perron, Richard M. 2011. "The taxonomic status of Casuarius bennetti papuanus and C. b. westermanni." Bulletin B.O.C. 131 (1): 54–58.
• Rothschild, Walter. 1899. "A Monograph of the Genus Casuarius." Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 15, pt. 5 (December, 1900). Editio interretialis.
• Sclater, P. L. 1875. "Cassowaries." Nature 12, no. 311 (14 Octobris): 516–17. Bibcode:1875Natur..12..516S. doi:10.1038/012516a0.
• Underhill, D. 1993. Australia's Dangerous Creatures. Sydneii: Reader's Digest. ISBN 0-86438-018-6.
• Weber, B. L., et I. E. Woodrow. 2004. "Cassowary frugivory, seed defleshing and fruit fly infestation influence the transition from seed to seedling in the rare Australian rainforest tree, Ryparosa sp. nov. 1 (Achariaceae)." Functional Plant Biology 31 (5): 505–16. doi:10.1071/FP03214.

Nexus externi[recensere | fontem recensere]

• Imagines et pelliculae Casuariii casuarii. ARKive.
• C4 Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation. In Mission Beach condita.
• Pellicula: Casuarius cum tribus pullis aqua sorbent. Elantra Resort apud Mission Beach.
• Pelliculae, photographemata, soni. Internet Bird Collection.