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Dromaius (emu)
Taxonomy
Dromaius was named by Vieillot (1816). It is extant.
It was assigned to Ratitae by De Vis (1905); to Dromaiidae by Houde (1988), Carroll (1988); to Casuariidae by Clements et al. (2017); and to Dromaiinae by Boles (1997), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Worthy and Nguyen (2020).
It was assigned to Ratitae by De Vis (1905); to Dromaiidae by Houde (1988), Carroll (1988); to Casuariidae by Clements et al. (2017); and to Dromaiinae by Boles (1997), del Hoyo et al. (2014), Worthy and Nguyen (2020).