Mwalau walterlinii Worthy et al. 2015 (Lini's megapode)

Reptilia - Galliformes - Megapodiidae

Full reference: T. H. Worthy, S. Hawkins, S. Bedford and M. Spriggs. 2015. Avifauna from the Teouma Lapita site, Efate Island, Vanuatu, including a new genus and species of megapode. Pacific Science 69:205-254

Belongs to Mwalau according to T. H. Worthy et al. 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AM F.138791, a set of limb elements (left tarsometatarsus). Its type locality is Teouma, which is in a Holocene terrestrial horizon in Vanuatu.

Ecology: volant herbivore

Distribution: found only at Teouma

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