Southern rockhopper penguin

Southern rockhopper penguin
Temporal range: Pleistocene to recent[1]
Adult in the New Island (Falkland Islands) rookery
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Sphenisciformes
Family: Spheniscidae
Genus: Eudyptes
Species:
E. chrysocome
Binomial name
Eudyptes chrysocome
(Forster, JR, 1781)
Subspecies

See text:

  • E. c. chrysocome – Western
  • E. c. filholi – Eastern
Distribution map rockhopper penguins
Green: western subspecies, blue: eastern subspecies
Synonyms
  • Aptenodytes chrysocome J.R.Forster, 1781
  • Aptenodytes crestata J.F. Miller, 1784
  • Eudyptes crestatus (J.F. Miller, 1784)

The southern rockhopper penguin [3] (Eudyptes chrysocome) is a species of rockhopper penguin, that is sometimes considered distinct from the northern rockhopper penguin. It occurs in subantarctic waters of the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as around the southern coasts of South America.

  1. ^ "Fossilworks: Eudyptes chrysocome".
  2. ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Eudyptes chrysocome". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22735250A182762377. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22735250A182762377.en. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
  3. ^ English name updates – IOC Version 2.9 (July 10, 2011) Archived November 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, IOC World Bird List