| Crested penguin Temporal range: Miocene to present
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| Macaroni penguin, Eudyptes chrysolophus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Sphenisciformes |
| Family: | Spheniscidae |
| Genus: | Eudyptes Vieillot, 1816 |
| Type species | |
| Aptenodytes chrysocome[1] | |
| Species | |
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Eudyptes chrysocome | |
Eudyptes is a genus of penguins whose members are collectively called crested penguins.[2] The exact number of species in the genus varies between four and seven depending on the authority, and a Chatham Islands species became extinct in recent centuries. All are black and white penguins with yellow crests, red bills and eyes, and are found on Subantarctic islands in the world's southern oceans. All lay two eggs, but raise only one young per breeding season; the first egg laid is substantially smaller than the second.
- ^ Gray, George Robert (1840). A List of the Genera of Birds : with an Indication of the Typical Species of Each Genus. London: R. and J.E. Taylor. p. 77.
- ^ "ITIS Standard Report Page: Eudyptes".