Table 1. Prevalence and abundance of nematode egg types in moa coprolites.
Locality and moa species | n | Egg type 1 cf. Heterakoidea | Egg type 2 undetermined Nematoda | Egg type 3 cf. Trichinellidae | |||||||
P | Am | Ar | P | Am | Ar | P | Am | Ar | |||
Dart River Valley | |||||||||||
Anomalopteryx didiformis | 3 | 0.67 | 876 | 370–1383 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Dinornis robustus | 6 | 0.5 | 960 | 245–2203 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
11 | 0.55 | 1148* | 347–1931* | 0.09 | 7288* | 0–7288* | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
17 | 0.53 | 0.06 | |||||||||
Pachyornis elephantopus | 5 | 0.2 | 2655 | 0–2655 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 490 | 0–490 | |
3 | 0.67 | 1636* | 1101–2170* | 0.33 | 271* | 0–271* | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
8 | 0.38 | 0.13 | 0.13 | ||||||||
Megalapteryx didinus | 15 | 0.2 | 363 | 226–570 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.13 | 280 | 262–298 | |
4 | 0.25 | 307* | 0–307* | 0.5 | 303* | 262–344* | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
19 | 0.21 | 0.11 | 0.11 | ||||||||
Kawarau Gorge | |||||||||||
Pachyornis elephantopus | 1 | 1.0 | 4645* | – | 1.0 | 3650* | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Roxburgh Gorge | |||||||||||
Pachyornis elephantopus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Euphrates Cave | |||||||||||
Megalapteryx didinus | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.17 | 653 | 241–965 |
P = prevalence (proportion of coprolites in which the egg type was present), Am = mean abundance where present, Ar = range of abundance where present. Am and Ar are shown as eggs g−1, except where a * symbol signifies the data are eggs mL−1.