The Plesiosaur Site

Kaiwhekea sp.

Reference

Cruickshank, Arthur R I (1998) 101 things to do with a dead plesiosaur - A talk given to Section C of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society on the 18th November 1998;Unpublished talk notes, , pp.1-6

Diagnosis

as type and only species

Etymology

from the Maori names kai, meaning food, and whekea, meaning squid; thus, squid-eater. Regarded as indeclinable. Pronunciation; kai-whe-kea, with the wh- pronounced as for the f in English 'far'.

Species