British Birds, 103: 360 - 361. Shepherd LD, COOPER J, Haile J, Scofield P, Tennyson AJD, Worthy TH (2009) Selection of a neotype for Apteryx mantelli Bartlett, 1852, with the support of genetic data.
The name volkonskoite was first used in 1830 to describe a bright blue-green, chromiumbearing clay material from the Okhansk region, west of the Ural Mountains, U.S.S.R. Since that time, the name has ...