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| Australian little penguin | |
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| Australian little penguin near burrow at night, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Sphenisciformes |
| Family: | Spheniscidae |
| Genus: | Eudyptula |
| Species: | E. novaehollandiae
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| Binomial name | |
| Eudyptula novaehollandiae (Stephens, 1826)[2]
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| The range of Eudyptula novaehollandiae is in red.[3] | |
The Australian little penguin (Eudyptula novaehollandiae), also called the fairy penguin, little blue penguin, or blue penguin, is a species of penguin from Australia and the Otago region of New Zealand. The species was described as Spheniscus novaehollandiae in 1826.[2] It was later reclassified as Eudyptula minor novaehollandiae, a subspecies of the little penguin.[2] After a 2016 study, Eudyptula novaehollandiae was again recognised as a distinct species.[4]
- ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Eudyptula minor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22697805A202126091. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22697805A202126091.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ a b c taxonomy. "Taxonomy browser (Eudyptula novaehollandiae)". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
- ^ "Fig 1. Map of distribution of Eudyptula penguins. Blue and red colours..." ResearchGate. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
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