Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:7a442655-a818-4569-b7b7-7ebb857b63c3

LSIDs are persistent, location-independent,resource identifiers for uniquely naming biologically significant resources including species names, concepts, occurrences, genes or proteins, or data objects that encode information about them. To put it simply, LSIDs are a way to identify and locate pieces of biological information on the web.

Data Links

JSON

For a JSON view of this data, click here

WMS

To use WMS services, copy and paste the following GetCapabilities URL into your OGC client (e.g. uDIG, ESRI ArcGIS)
http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/ogc/ows?q=species:Casuarius casuarius
For higher taxa, this will give you a hierarchical listing of layers for each taxon.

RDF

To download an RDF/XML document for the concepts and names click here
A JSON view of this information is here here
A html view of this information is here here

Further details

For more details on occurrence webservices, click here
For more details on names webservices, click here

Species presence

Recorded In Australia

Terrestrial Habitats

Conservation status

IUCNVulnerable

Overview
Gallery
Names
Classification
Records
Literature

Occurrence records map

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Source: ALA website image uploads
Image by: Kenneth Foster
Rights: Kenneth Foster, 2011

Description

The Cassowary is a large flightless rainforest bird about the size of an Emu. It has brilliant blue and purple head and neck and red wattles. The body has black feathers. Cassowary feathers differ from other birds in that they have a quill that splits in two. source: OZ Animals

Online resources

Birds in Backyards
- Distribution, Habitat, Diet, Reproduction, Distribution Map, Similar Species
Encyclopedia of Life
- Description, Images
Flickr EOL
- Images, Occurrence record
Internet Bird Collection
- Video Page Url, Family Common Name
OZ Animals
- Description, Distribution, Morphology, Habitat, Diet, Reproduction
Wikipedia
- Images

Species Lists

Australian iconic species

Images

Names and sources

Accepted name	Source
Casuarius casuarius	Australian Faunal Directory

Synonyms

Synonyms	Source
Struthio casuarius Linnaeus, 1758	Australian Faunal Directory

Common Names

Common name	Source
Southern Cassowary Is this a preferred common name for this species? YES \| NO	International Union for Conservation of Nature ALA website image uploads Catalogue of Life: 2012 Annual Checklist Australian Faunal Directory Birds Australia
Cassowary Is this a preferred common name for this species? YES \| NO	OZ Animals
Southern Cassowary. (the Northern Ones Come From Papua New Guinea!) Is this a preferred common name for this species? YES \| NO	OZ Animals
Southerncassowary Is this a preferred common name for this species? YES \| NO	ALA website image uploads

Working classification

kingdom: ANIMALIA

Occurrence records

View list of all occurrence records for this taxon

Charts showing breakdown of occurrence records

Hint: click on chart elements to view that subset of records

Record maps from other sources

Source: Birds in Backyards

Casuarius casuarius (Linnaeus, 1758)

Southern Cassowary